Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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30 We caught only one weasel today in the steel traps. There were rats or mice in the rat traps. I shot a few greenkit, a tailor bird + a blue magpie. During the night it rained + there was distant thunder + lightning. In the P.M. a mild storm visited us with heavy rain. 31 At daybreak Caldwell went out for trips but saw nothing in the rice fields across the valley. The weasel I caught yesterday was quite different from the ones caught at Longton by Andrews. It was small + dark brown above with yellowish belly while the others were light tawny yellow both above + below the belly being merging in color with the rock. Caldwell departed for the monastery across the mountain where At K'are hunting for tigers. I went up to the upper traps after breakfast + found a P Palancir, Paradocurus in a the steel trap. Day cloudy + very humid + without any breeze. Caldwell says the