Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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come to any of the three places where we had large traps, Caldwell had set the large trap where he saw a new track. In the reverse traps there was only one water rat. On our way up the mountain side to Loughlin Caldwell jumped a muntjac + shot it for all was shut with it finally. It was a fine large g. The stomach contents were leaves, only with a blade of grass. The leaves were a purple flower pes like mistera. On places on the mountain & about the falls we saw fine groves of fir tree with their fadge green cones standing erect. The day was cloudy + pleasant Shot 2 cormorans, white with brown necks. They are much like the African inhabitants, follow the cattle about + feeding about their feet. There were in places some blue wood pigeons, one of which Caldwell shot. The can herons were just as in one of th