Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
Page 109
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Transcription
The traps on Blackvale Creek crowded on the brown more fell by the Honk Shan ching Hunter, The mare is an imbrand Jente which attempts to scale cliffs & trees on occasion when being guided over the land. She is a very daring spirit like & hangs dont camp unperfectly comes to the main when called. The steel traps contained nothing as usual & one large ones stolen by some small shepherd boy whom I found nearby but they denied any knowledge of the trap caused On the way back I shot me white dellied squirrel in a large rock in the forest where two were playing together. The hunter pointed out a thrush which I shot & on the large meadow I shot a Stretzed thrasher like thrush; Both morning I acquired a water men in depth mouse traps & a woodpecker with the 22 new camp. At his home returned at