Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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I saw one gray squirrel & a larger & gold pheasant. Fine streams of clear water are from the mountains at short intervals, at dusk the Australian botanist, Dr. [illegible] Brown called, whom spent two years here but having been detained by the snow storms. (10) The nights were cold & clear but without frost. The traps yielded 10 rodents, one new species of agrodromus much like an peromyscus. Others were the Pseudochydra, small Spinning & large Agrodromus A [illegible]. Following the Mirrolets is absent apparently. The name of this village is Sseu - San - Chong. After lunch I started up the mountain with the two members of that group. We ascended the canyon trail, which flowed past shelter & it the country was very wild & beautiful. First [illegible]