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(3)  At noon we had a very heavy downpour of rain accompanied with violent thunder & lightening and heavy squally wind.  The storm lasted about 1 hour violently & then continued as a drizzle much of the day.  This is the first real rain storm I have witnessed here.  I spent the day looking over books on Yunnan & west China in the Raffles Library.  Dr. Hamisch has issued a special catalogue on the Chinese books in the library.  I found many new books not previously known of on Yunnan or part of it.