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thighs & waists heavily tatooed [[strikethrough]] & the [[/strikethrough]] like those seen on the Nam-ting. I saw about the village many trees bearing jack fruit, the first I have ever seen. A coco palm was also seen & many Papaiyas, & bananas. The afternoon was sunny & very warm & the night calm & sultry & very warm. There is no intensive cultivation here such as you [[strikethrough]]see[[/strikethrough]] is to be seen in China there being much waste level land on every hand. The beds of most of the streams we crossed yesterday which are tributaries to the Taiping flowed thru granite beds, great granite boulders blocking their progress & filling them with rapids. No game animals or birds were seen except small birds. A single species of small lizard was