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abundant on the roadbed but no other reptile was seen.
[[circled left]] 8 [[/circled left]] The night was warm & calm. At down a hevy storm visited us the rain falling heavily for 3 hours accompanied in the beginning by much thunder. I took Woo's Chair & gave him the mule for this last stretch of 3 hours or 9 miles. The road us a splendid broad affair 50 feet wide & well macadamized with limestone. No cultivated fields lined it only bamboo scrub & park like country of small trees & new grass with a small village at intervals. We arrived at Bhamo at 10:30 on the street near his store we met Mr. Holm, an Austrian merchant who has lived here many years & is married to a Shan woman.