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thighs & waist heavily stored
like those seen on the
Nam-tung, I saw climb
the village many trees bearing
jack fruit, the first I have her
seen. Areca palm was also
seen & many Papaiips,
The afternoon was success
very warm & the night
calm & still & very warm.
There is no intense
cultivation here such as you
see to be seen in China
there being much waste level
land on every hand. The
beds of most of the streams
were swollen yesterday which
are tributaries, to the Tarpy,
flowed them granite beds,
great-granite boulders!
Slowing their progress &
filling them with rapids.
No game animal or bird were
seen except small birds. A
single species of small lizard was