Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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On the route noticed patches of maize in front of the house sleeping. Which is now white. corn between sweet corn, the yellow field corn has about 40%. Besides maize crops there are beans, indeterminate, hemp, turnips, taro + this was present rice (Oct 2) The night at Li Chiang was cold & without mosquitoes. The Phuket Pentecost missionaries however told us mosquitoes were common at midsummer. Set 2 & traps about hedges & rice field types & caught 10 carambles, 4 more Pachycera, 2 Spring lizards, house not interesting, 1 spring bird, rats, 2 small springs, 1 Microla. In the afternoon set more traps & caught during the day 4 Microla, 1 Pachycera, 1 Timpan, 3 small Springs. at 3 P.M. we called on the Phuket missionaries but found Rev. Cox away only his wife & children & another woman was at home. They have been in China