Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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the creek without anything at all Game going north. 10 At his wife went into Licking with Nan the idiot to cash some cheeks & get a caravan for Christmas them. The Solo hunters & thel old hunter meet on our usual up towards the snow peaks but secured nothing they saw a person on the cliffs at great distance but they could not get closer, I caught only 3 mice & I got nothing in his traps. after getting direct over with the horse & mofin to Blackwell creek & set 6 steel traps who & some a jopes. Thursday was fine & clear without strong breezes on the way over the ridge I saw several herds on the forest & several large line of deer. 11 Today I secured two prizes a chipmunk with 3 dorsal stripes white tipped ears and a small white belled squirrel with reddish crisscross mark