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of the red stemmed fig trees with broad leaves were seen in the forest but no animal appears to eat the fruit now.
The Mohawaden Shan hunter shot a ? Moutjoe today,
A shot a pyg & Gibbon. Two or three other yesterday heard two Raleut for chasing me another than the trees I met a small cover of bamboo partridges in the forest where they were scratching on thoops loom. They never leave the forest for the ricefields as do not gallinaceous birds there.
The forest of the hill is charming all this season. There are no annoying insects & the trees give a cool shade so The under shrubs are annoying only on the names few spots which are overgrown by long grass. The trees are evergreen timber species chiefly but in habit are like an oaks & others. The soil even on steep hillsides is a loose reddish loam humus although it is almost all to the porous rocks which is limestone.