Camp at An-Ning-Chow Throes over level rice fields chiefly dark very slippery & Muddy, every few miles so we passed thro a filthy Chinese village bringing the appearance & smell of pig pen. We reached our camping place, a large village called Ay Chow at 9 P.M. Throes after dark & camped in a temple occupied at the time by the police. It was dry clean & spacious but the bats were very noisy during the night & the mosquitoes annoying. (10) Departed at 4 A.M. in a misty rain. From new soldiers took the place of two we had yesterday. The road was quite good being a track over red clay soil without the rough spurry stones except where wet fields. Birds were numerous on the road, crows, black & blue magpies, tree sparrows, a brown stone-chat, maytails etc. A butterfly & a gray falcon were seen