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C. Koford
16
Journal
27 July 1965. To Inuyama, Aichi, Japan
Inuyama + J. Markey Center. Conferrd w/ Yoshida, Kawai, re Bud-
get. Revised the budget + categories.
28 July 1965. Budget discussion at JMC. Paid M. Kawai 600,000
yen, + worked out budget limits for August.
29 July 1965. Returned to Tokyo (Fri.). Confered with D. Avery at NSF.
30-31 July 1965. Tokyo. Paper work + correspondence. The hot post-
rainy season now; many use swimming + weekend travelers.
1 August 1965. Departed 11 a.m., JAL, for Hong Kong. Visibility poor
below much of way, but many from studio or water. No view of Taiwan.
Went up the p
2 August 1965. Peak Tram + walked the circle around the Peak. Saw +
heard many birds - soaring bowler lite ?, cuckoo (?), in sparse-
like vegetation. Large snake (3") [illegible] shaped. Saw no lizards. Varies
hills in sight now, or trees + green; any former tree probably long,
gone.
2 August 1965. Visited Hong Kong Univ., which had fairly modern library
building (on #7 Aberdeen, lines level). Holiday. Dr. (Mrs.) Marshall
was [illegible] A (dridge) on loan; she said to be interested in mammals. Dept:
Nood, Thorncroft, were an admin secretary. I talked to only 2 Chinese
pocket
girls. Visited Repulse (cove) Bay, + Aberdeen - a small pocket of
seething Chinese boat + market life. Sea little but still blue,
not muddy! The Chinese girls in good dept. thought little animal trade
than H.K., the occasional civet or paragon in food market. One
said a hill in New Territories formerly had monkeys in pine + was called
"monkey hill" (no specimens).
3 August 1965. Departed 15:25 for Delhi via Bangkok. Much ocean like
blue sea. Much seemingly uninhabited hilly jungle, + wide red-brown
muddy Mekong R. India plain brown, the pools frequent.