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being apparent. [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] Every woman & ♀ child above 6 yrs has bound feet in regulation Chinese style.
[[boxed left]] 16-21 [[boxed left]] The time was spent packing specimens. Every day the weather was cloudy & each day at noon a little rain fell so drying specimens has not been pleasant. Forrest the botanist was here until Thursday when he departed on his way to Tali fu. His destination is Orternza & the country west of it, Mekong-Salween divide. The white flower tree of the namting & Salween is a Barhenia or legume & not a Rhododendron he says. The lower tropical flora he does not know only the mtn. flora. Several times his life has been in danger during his 13 yrs in China. At one time on the upper Mekong near Weishi at the time of the Younghusband ^[[military]] expedition in Tibet the Tibetans hunted his party down & killed

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Francis Younghusband led the British invasion of Tibet in 1903-1904