July 16 Left early for trip up Tola River - Duke from Yangsen had given me a letter to a hunter there, from Dorche, by name. We wound ups the Tola River Trailroad and when about 8 miles from Mai-ma- chong turned north into another valley away from Tola River. The going was bad for the road was filled with stones, but the scenery was beautiful. The hills enclosing hills were covered here & there with patches of spruce. & the valley was full of deer. The whole country had a decidedly northern aspect & could hardly have been more unlike the region immediately south of Moga from which I had recently returned, for huge red legged Thrush storks hurt me - also we shot two large go-thurs with grey spotted backs & bright rufous sides. Quite a surprise to find them here. Camped at night beside stream. July 17 After three hours sleep a.m. we reached a swamp on the bank of a river called Da-mat. The place looked absolutely unsanitary, but after coffee we arranged to camp in a place which looked the least dangerous. We got some better than we had anti- cipated and were all covered with small scratches.