"For 6 years & have not seen European women for 2 years previous to our arrival. They said the natives here and Chinese at all but a distinct tribe which use their own language & both Chinese only when forced to by convento The day was cloudy but no rain fell. Many natives (men) visited me, one boy came with bearing a pet hawk on his arm, another brought 2 green snakes & others brought rats + mice. 7 Ninety rat traps were set by 4+9 along ledges & dyes in the rice fields and our catch consisted of 50 mice + shrews of each the following species: 1 Pachyura, 1 Mints [illegible], 1 Apodemis, 1 Impair, 1 Spring norvegicus, 2 Spring small, 1 spring rat. The natives brought in large numbers of Shrews & civets, mantigars, foxes, leopard, lizards, flying squirrel None of the shrews had cloules.