grass beneath the scattered pines. No cattle to graze it down were seen + only four small village and forms were seen. At 5 P.M., we reached a village situated on a ridge with the pine forest there we camped on a narrow grassy ridge. The place was called Pei-ki-ping (white earth flat). 18) Our catch consisted of gray mice, 2 Microtus + 3 Spiny Mouse. From the camp, the road climbed up the ridge then pine forest for 2 hours. At 10 A.M., we reached the summit where another village that seemed-shoe was perched. The soil here was a soft black loam of the hill sides were covered by a heavy growth of grass and poplar like trees, appearing having every year. Cause of being picked mammal wringing. One of the commonest bushes (item the country we have been travelling is a broad leaved brim or Rubus, I fir with persistent long upright canes with plagega crassiflorae has turned into a common tree. White pine has also been seen.