(Yung-Kang) alt. 3000ft. resides Chen-Kang magistrate Just as we arrived - light rain began to fall some made camp in a sort of temple in the village. For the past 3 days we have met several small caravans bearing tales of raw cotton covered by melting from the south. (5) The rain continued all night in sort of continuous showers. The post office name for this town is Yung-Kang but neither of these names are on Hearnes map. The magistrate was away in the border detecting Opium smugglers & raisers of gunpowder. His secretary however did the corres of the office. On some of the shops lots of dried threadless & fruitless mons were found. Some white gray like waterbrick, other, red like mentjao. They are said to come from farther south near the border in flow