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Tuesday June 17
At this camp we saw several gibbons
Cittulas go with long tails, ones which
I had obtained on the way up. They
appeared about 5 miles before we reached
this camp (i.e. 20 mi from Shiga). They entered
for about 1 mi more further up then we saw
no more. It looks as if they occupied a
very restricted area. They don't live in
villages but are seen there all singly at
considerable distances from each other.
We had a magnificent day with a
brilliant sun and light breeze which kept
it from being too warm. I saw hundreds
of mannikins but my sights were so
bad that I got none. It does not seem to be able
to get the rifle to shooting accurately. Now it
with a bad ray mannikin!
At two o'clock we climbed over the last
long hill and came up on the plateau proper.
From its summit, perhaps we could see
half a dozen pools of water flashing in
the sunlight and away to the right turked
away among the hills lay a little temple
surrounded by a cluster of yamuts while
in the distance looked like giant be hives.
Our range rode ahead I learned that
this was its last water for 35 miles, so
purpose we camped as far and as the
plain, away from the yamuts. It was
a beautiful spot with the hills rolling
away on either side of us and the