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June
a billy-shit another reddly shilld &
Owen also - saw several camel
Cameras - camels shedding &
look very ragged - the chinese
cultivated patches, men plowing
fields beginning to turn green -
trees at them a had just budding
saw one fox but no antelope -
billy's 18 Cotters mongrels - from
car - look just like our gophers at
home - don't build nests in fern
of hole - not live in exterior village
as our western prairie dogs but
still usually here number together
females all carrying young but they
have winter pelage - Rainfed 90 mi.
from /them^ has at 4.35 - Skimmered
all gophers & two cranes - turned
lighted at night by Dulco - first
time ever have electric light on go
Monday,
May 19 Left at 7 a.m. wind fairly strong - saw me
a few gophers - minutes of quills (black cappa
reached Panjan about noon & just beyond P
in the plain saw a flush of golden plover -
shot me - while waiting for me the people
grunted
saw an antelope (gaye) which ran
across the road in front of us - car wa
going at 40 mi per hr. & the animal
was doing at least 15 mi nod. - shot
at it but it disappeared over a bluff x
mi east of - shortly after saw another,