house 2 1/4 li away at 2 P.M. While family very glad & we too - went on up - the valley to our old camp site - the way in which the timber has been cut away is appalling - now the whole valley is a field an unlimited field I earn a smilet - at the end where there was a beautiful forest before - nothing but grasses - I could hardly recognize its place - could do so only from the misty peaks - I tried to cross the mist & camp on the other side but it was almost dark & the map says said they could not get across the rocky stream bed - returned & camped just above where we had been before in a space of trees which had been left - heavy rain at night. July 31 Sunday Put out line of traps in a.m. & instructed the two new men (Chio Chang) whom I am training in instead of trapping - heavy rain about 11 o'clock - every thing flooded - simply jorvel - shot a few chipmunks - 15-men arrived to hunt Siba deer - they wanted 40¢ each per day because they said things so much more expensive than before - (formerly paid 20¢ per day) - Aug 1 Monday Hunters went out at 9.30 & returned at 9.30 P.M. saw two female Siba but did not get a shot - said they saw tracks of others - they lost two black squirrels (S. vulgaris) which and I lost two