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[[circled]] 10 [[circled]  We broke camp this morning & travelled to Wa-tien, a small village north some 3 hours. It was cloudy & at noon we had a quiet 2 hour of rain. Camp was pitched well up the Salween range below the Hsueh Shan Ting village. On the route over we passed thru hilly country of granite formation with rice terraces [[strikethrough]]were[[/strikethrough]] [[layering]] all the valleys & pine forest & trees on the hill slopes. The common pine, a white pine & chestnut trees were the commonest trees.  At some of the huts paper making was in progress. This a cheap brown paper & is made from bamboo stems. The stems are first boiled in lime to decompose them & then they are washed in large tanks & macerated so that the fiber forms a pasty mass. A fine screen tray is dipped into this & a surface of fiber is skimmed off which is smoothed off & deposited carefully