Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
Page 171
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Transcription
22 We remained in camp again today but our catch of small mammals was not up to anticipations, there were however fulvous spiny rats and Micropus 4 Stheno Voles however were caught & several Apodermus & one Microdus. I went out with Hotefa Holenja & the dogs gone hunting but we saw nothing save a shot one yesterday. There was some deer on the cliffs & a few tracks, but no evidence of any other game mammal. The cliffs here were of pinkish red sandstone horizontally bedded. The ridgelines were clad in low saltbrush & spine without underbrush & dry stony ground. The dogs were quite unrevealed & would follow no tracks. When we rolled large stones down the incline - tried to start the game (the dogs got excited at the noise made by the rocks but the wise showed no interest. 23 Camp was broken early & moved up the valley. A little way beyond camp the country became well forested.