written of the same material. The valley of the Mekong is nicely terraced into rice fields at this season wheat & peas were in the rice stubble. 10 English Ivy grows everywhere in the country along ditched & road banks. The English Walnut is almost every hmt & nuts lay dry on the roof everywhere. Both of these plants are of Chinese origin, unwieldy, we broke camp early & travelled down the river. The weather was clear & bright like that yesterday & for the past week. Our catch today was 2 Merionup (long) long-tailed & several Microtes Irene. On some rice terrace I saw a flock of 50 dark mallards & swamp ducks feeding on the grass which are planted for fertilizing. No cranes have been seen in the Mekong yet. On both sides, the width of the valley are terraced for a mile wide, the terraces being only narrow, only 2 or 3 yds wide. The amount have required many years of labour. The slopes of the terrace is faced by grass, never being worn by precipitation from. The horses in the valleys are all mud-walled with straw. It shakes with hold country rocks.