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pression of opium growing CHAPTER XXIX CAMPING ON THE NAM-TING RIVER A beautiful camp--The "Dying Rabbit"--Sambur hunting--Jungle fowl--Civets--Pole cats and other animals CHAPTER XXX MONKEY HUNTING Strange calls in the jungle--Our first gibbons--Relationship and habits--Langurs and baboons--A night in the jungle CHAPTER XXXI THE SHANS OF THE BURMA BORDER An unfriendly chief--Honest natives--Houses at Nam-ka--Tattooing--Shan tribe--Dress CHAPTER XXXII PRISONERS OF WAR IN BURMA Y.B.A. The mythical Ma-li-ling--Across the frontier into Burma--The _mafus_ rebel--Ma-li-pa--Captain Clive--Guarding the border--Life at Ma-li-pa CHAPTER XXXIII HUNTING PEACOCKS ON THE SALWEEN RIVER The valley at Changlung--The ferry--Peacocks--The stalker stalked--Habits of peafowls CHAPTER XXXIV THE GIBBONS OF HO-MU-SHU Climbing out of the Salween Valley--A Shan village--Ho-mu-shu--Camping on a mountain pass--Gibbons--An exciting hunt and a narrow escape--Habits of the "hoolock" CHAPTER XXXV TENG-YUEH: A LINK WITH CIVILIZATION Tai-ping-pu--Flying squirrels--Lisos--A bat cave--Mail--Teng-yueh--Mr. Ralph Grierson--Tibetan bear cubs CHAPTER XXXVI A BIG GAME PARADISE Gorals at Hui-yao--Deer--Splendid hunts CHAPTER XXXVII SEROW AND SAMBUR Monkeys at Hui-yao--Muntjacs--A new serow--We move camp to Wa-tien--A fine sambur CHAPTER XXXVIII LAST DAYS IN CHINA Return to Teng-yueh--Packing the specimens--Results of the Expedition--On the road to Bhamo--The chair coolies--Burma _vs._ China--In civilization again--Farewell to the Orient LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Our camp on the Snow Mountain at an altitude of 12,000 feet. Yvette Borup Andrews with a pet Yuen-nan squirrel Edmund Heller Roy Chapman Andrews and a goral A Chinese hunter and a muntjac Brigands killed in the Yen-ping Rebellion The Ling-suik monastery A priest of Ling-suik A Chinese mother with her children Chinese women of the coolie class with bound feet Cormorant fishers on the lake at Yuen-nan Fu Our camp at Chou Chou on the way to Ta-li Fu The Pagodas at Ta-li Fu The dead of China The residence of Rev. William J. Hanna at Ta-li-Fu The gate and main street of Ta-li Fu One of the pagodas at Ta-li Fu A Moso herder A Moso woman The Snow Mountain A cheek gun used by one of our hunters The first goral killed on the Snow Mountain Hotenfa, one of our Moso hunters, bringing in a gora
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