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the bund we saw several fantan games running openly but it is only recently that they have been allowed to operate.  Humphreys said there was good duck, goose & snipe shooting here in winter and tiger occur but he had never hunted them.  Woods his chief man [[strikethrough]] said [[/strikethrough]] showed us some white egret feathers from the inland city of Choo-chow situated 40 miles up the river.  These feathers he said were obtained without killing the bird by small boys who climb the trees containing the nests & [[marginalia]] symbol: right arrow [[/marginalia]]  catch the parent bird sitting & pull out the feathers.  This sounds fishy as the [[symbol: male]] possesses the feathers & does not to my knowledge assist in incubation.
[[circled]] 25 [[/circled]]  Owing to the slowness of the Custom House the ship was not cleared until