Stein, BC 1988 13 Aug. showers upon our return. Art mentioned this Chinese guest / the conelation to Patrick who was most indignant. But nowater today - and no water tomorrow - it's Sunday! Cleaned traps tonite - yeek, then tissues. The word on the boat trip for tomorrow is there is no word right now. After dinner they said we couldn't get boats. That was charged to too much rain upstream, water too dangerous. Then there was the excuse of the wild elephants being dangerous. We should be so lucky to see an elephant. I don't know about upstream but we only had light sprinkles this afternoon in the way rain. I can hardly wait for tomorrow. 14 Aug. Another cloudy A.M. Six of us were to go to area #3 of 10 forest. No boats, it was decided we would walk. Picked up our forestry guide, a 20 school student to help carry traps + the Director, Mr. Wei + Patrick went along for the fun. Started walking from the Dai village, through the cultivated fields + straight up the hillside like we've seen the villagers do. It was long, hot, steep and just a bit stick. A beautiful view from the top. You could look out + see how for miles + miles the forest had been cleared for agriculture. We hiked for about