abundant on the, road beds than other reptile persons. 8 The night was warm & calm, or down a heavy storm visited us the rain falling heavily for 3 hours accompanied in the beginning by much thunder. I took Wood chair & gave him the mule for this last stretch of 3 hours - 9 mile. The road is a splendid broad affair 50 feet wide & well macadamized with limestone. No cultivated fields lined it only bamboo shrubs & jack-like country small trees & new growth with a small village at intervals. We arrived at Bharno at 10:30 & at the street near his store market Mr. Holmes, an Austrian merchant who has lived here many years & is married to a Shan woman.