Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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but on the meadow our camp are in bloom &th[e] glordisplay is abloze of red + blue (16) I started at 7 A.M. with the 2 hunters & their 6 dogs to hunt goral on the forested cliffs above camp. In one of the high meadows at about 13,000 feet we found a small viper in th[e] a grany meadow which was quite cold altho' it was cold. We also captured 2 small snakes in the grass at the same high elevation. At 10 A.M. the dogs stayed a goral on the cliffs below so the village hunter turned the red hound loose which he had been holding for several draining as the other dogs were worthless. In a short time after the red dog was loosed the same large goral ascending by short jumps the cliffs toward us. We came on without stopping apparently concerned only in making the