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Transcription
"Front of some of the houses fresh green pine needles which in her years custom. Our catch this morning was a large Perchyna bearing musk glands on the sides for very pleasant fragrance. A large Euphraga norvegicus was caught at the pond."
26 This morning we journeyed down the valley to the cave on the Teng-y-berel road. It is situated 20 li down on the edge of the valley at the small village of a-shi-yu. The cave is within 10 yards of the road on the face of a hill about 50 feet above the valley. The entrance is high but only about 8 yds wide. It has some Chinese letters stilled in the rock for my building are at the entrance. The cave runs in horizontally & the ceiling is very high. Inside it runs sharply down places the roof comes down within 10 feet of the floor.