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made of bamboo the pillars
& thatch is depleted I can't say,
almost red spring net like the
one taken on the Neponset first
but larger. Several finches
were trapped today.
24 Another red net was
sewn in the forest below
camp, also one of the gray
spring mice as well as a bushy-tailed
rat & large R pipings. A small agouti in wheel traps.
The birds here are all very
slay as any native carries
gun & shoot game for the
food. Several birdmen few
in number & species and
are also very slay. Today
while shooting at some red
bellied squirrels I blundered upon
a large black Parrot or parakeet in a tree. They looked us
close as monkeys as they
saw them jump away.
25 One of our hunters brought
in a long gray monkey which
he had shot. This makes