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[[circled left]] 11 [[/circled left]] We had another wet day with intervals of sunshine. At night there was hard rain & in the morning low mist & quiet rain. I secured another ♂ Semnopithecus on the same ridge as yesterday. The Liso, an army of boys & men armed with low guns brought in a fine large ♀ Muntjac which they had shot in the leg with a poisoned arrow. They said it ran quite a way before the poison killed it. The poison is a vegetable substance black & tarry in [[strikethrough]] color [[/strikethrough]] appearance.
[[circled left]] 12 [[/circled left]] Today for the first time we heard gibbons calling. They called at 8 AM for a few minutes & altho I was not more than a mile away we could not find them. The country we travelled thru is covered by fine forest of large trees oaks & laurels but no figs. The bamboo here is a very wicked sort being armed at each node by a whorl of short heavy spines which prick you 

Transcription Notes:
Semnopithecus is a genus of langurs Liso are properly called Lisu, an ethnic group on the China/Burma border