Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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"I discovered a flat meadow near Timberline at 12,000 feet where one could camp. The outgoing Dr. Henri Deneulin was at the temple. He has spent three years in this part of your man collecting plants. (12) We had started yesterday to come camping to this high meadow where I had seen many runways of a small rodent. The traps set near the temple have yielded 2 new shows both of small size & the village boys brought in 2 more lots, one a myxotis & the other a jipistella, a Konwula perhaps. During this delay of the morning we got started for the mountains at 10 AM. The downslopes were forested by a small pine but most of the hillsides were covered by scrub - live oak. At 11,000 feet the spruce became predominant tending to Timberline as the