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George Mr. G. Bear Creps
He lives at Longtown & has
his father the great to artist there.
Near Henry
Henry Harry Caldwell
told me of a Chinese hunter
who lives on mountain
farms west of the town who
is tremendous tracker &
never fails to get wounded
ligers, Boars or serows.
He often drives out Serous
from the rough quakes to
hunters. He himself never
never carries a gun or rifle
uses dog but he never
fails to track large game.
The Chinese language is so
impractical that the name of a
foreigner cannot be expressed
in their characters but he
must be given another name
in Chinese. So this the way
the Chinese have given names
to all the missionaries & foreign
residents of Manchou. The
missionaries told me that my