there were tigers in Yunn man at [?]- was for when he was shooting there he saw the tracks often + heard tigers roaring at night or occasional tho he did not see any actually. A call which I made this afternoon on Consul General Sammons was quite fortunate. While in his office I met Mr. Hale Bumpstead, Chicago sportsman + officer of the Camp-fire Club there. He is a close friend of 'Osgood's Habeler's, the is out for the [illegible] Pond Co, on his first trip to Russia that his wife with him who has hunted sheep in Alaska with him.