"road cuts gray or whitish grante (sic) was exposed the first work of this sort I had seen since coming south, at 1.30 P.M. we reached a stream situated in a deep ravine amid newly grown grass lands & here we camped as Arno down with the malaria. The grass was just opening up & a new crop of Pteris ferns a tribe which are all then this region dominate over the grass, The natives gather the new fern stalks & boil them for food. I tasted some which was rather glutinous & spinach like in taste. The camp was about 5 hrs. from the small village of Nang-sai. No sign of game mammals or birds were seen here. At the creek below past camp a new store building of white granite had been built the rocks taking at the creek side. 26 Having recovered from the malaria we continued on journey & arrived at Nang-sai