(burn like Crataegus) to use as a hedge plant also in flower. In the afternoon marched a Valley on the sides of which were numerous Chinese villages the largest being Cha-an - so. One's place nearly as large as Jung-king. One of the villages was a pottery manufactory great numbers of conical white pots being in view. We made camp at the lower end of the valley on fine gassy slope. These valleys look quite desolate now being a sort of dried up rice terraces without any vegetation across grazing. Only one crop of rice is grown here this is not yet planted as the fields are left idle all winter quite a reverse to this thing. The creek is a broad shallows over flows into the Salween east of the valley. (29) The nights as usual at 5000 feet very cold. At this point we left the Jung-chang road and made straight for that ridge bounding the Salween on the west which we followed north.