day after two wolf-traps on the trail. The natives were plowing the hillside nearby & were all night camped in the field under light bamboo huts with their sheep flocking nearby. They don't live more than a half mile away, but save time for camping in the fields I suppose. (13) My walk onto the trip set on the Sambor trail was in vain. Only one fresh track that of a muntjac was seen on the road thru the plowed fields. A caught one of the cougared rats first taken at Ta-shui-tang. The hunters did not come today some had to content ourselves with shooting small animals of which we had on board. The 4p district here was once more thickly populated when poppies were the legitimate crop. Now since the opium embargo many of the fields have grown up into weedy places. The hill crop here seems to be chiefly corn or maize. This district is