104 A hurried off just in time. It must have been killed otherwise. Our relief escort found them - plus 2 wounded men. We had to get away 2 miles away. I finally got the cart righted & by great good fortune nothing was broken, but it was so late that we could not go on and make Mu Tai Lai that night as it was only 30 li away a month later I was feeling very tired - lungs filled up - rather worried about pneumonia. Fri Oct 31 Shortly after leaving the village we turned north into a fairly wide valley which narrowed rapidly as we ascended. The sides were high rocks, sometimes almost perfect circular cliffs of granite. We looked in vain for signs of trees & no not a bush was in sight - the sky was bare blue. We heard many chuckers and had some fine shooting on the way up. The partridges kept well up in the rocks & close together. Often we would see them standing on a rock or running up the hill. Zulus, it was hard