We made camp high above the Metawy. 196 at the village of Hriao-ta which is situated at the upper limit of along. series of rice terraces which extend down 1,000 feet to the river margin. The other side across the way is evidently a patch work of fields up to 2,000 feet above the river. Along the fields I, behind other ridges could discern the same curved ridges of the metawy - between these, our camp was situated on a small level place in the road among olive trees & bushes. 7.9 The night at Hriao-ta was cool & plesant. My trip was not. The villagers gave me guard of four men with armed unit guns & cross-bows ev like those of the previous nights. I have seen no rocks in place either on road cuts or in the landscape. The whole valley is gravel, calamine clay, red clay & shale chiefly. For the last few days the road has followed high upon the ridge 1,000 feet above the main spring forming deep trough without level land, the cultivation being limited to terraced farms. The appearance of the landscape is that of fall rather than winter, the trees, olive, walnut & wilder