October 11, 1917 Most of my time was occupied in packing my trunks for through shipment to Yokohama. After tiffin, I went with the Bumsteads to a gun store where we were told by the manager that the Chinese Government did not allow them to keep only a few guns for sale at a time, but most of their stock must be kept in the Government warehouse where permission to extract guns on their sale was given by the Government. Shotgun shells (Peters Loaded) were $8.00 Mexican per 100 which is not high landed here. From the gun store, we went to the Chinese fur shops on Hunan Road. Most of the furs are said to come from Manchuria. All were well trimmed. They had a series of fine skins of snow leopards with the claws attached for $30.00 to $40.00 Mexican. Highly colored orange tigers were $150.00 Mexican. White or gray wolf skins of large size were $15.00 to $20.00 Mexican. There were common leopard robes, made of large rivet cat, red fox, land otter, martin, weasel and gray squirrel. I saw no flying squirrel skins and the merchant said there were none in the market. In one shop we saw a cost made up of a light fulvous mink with the tails protruding for $150.00 Mexican, only these mink were much lighter than any North American species and pretty. A few dark brown bear with silver tipped hair were also on sale.