Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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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