A flock of green-winged geese were seen here & 5 shot but no geese or other ducks were seen. White herons & white-winged bitterns were common. No tigers or snakes have been seen. At midday the weather is really hot at midday & the sun disagreeably so. Many porters bearing long bundles of sugarcane have been met going toward Yang Chung. The cane is sold for eating raw. Where it grows it is made into loongan & a clear sort of gin called wine by the Chinese. I have just discovered that what I thought was a true cactus is really a Zephyranthes or calla lily sort. Or rather a stem for purpose making juice flows through it. This is the plant which has a few spectacular yellow fleshy leaves at the apex of the thorny pale green ribbed stems. At some of the villages on the