shot & remain there only night, we had a little rain today, May 1 We each shot a gorail today. At my side of the river in the morning shot a gorailing which had apparently upper jaws; the lower one striking the palate far back so that the lower lip could not reach the upper. In the after- noon I shot a dark & about 3 years old & just reaching maturit. Getting this one female may 1st longest shot (500 yards) the men far away that the men could not make him out to be leg or full length on a rock beneath a pine tree. The first shot killed him striking him in the middle of the back & breaking it. 2 In the morning I took my two be guides Taw-yi-li & a villager & proceeded down the river following the upper