Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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serow was encountered, only the tracks of the fleeing animal which left large prints where it made great leaps downhill. No game was seen on the way over. (19) We both went out climbing goral each taking a hunter + 3 dogs. A went up the cliffs above camp but his dogs were so tired from yesterday that they took no interest in fresh goral trails. I encountered with the 3 dogs a serow soon after leaving camp in a thick fir forest where several piles of fresh deer were seen. This serow let the first one bolted straight down hill, the dogs following to the foot of the mountain. We finally recovered the dogs by a long chase to the base but never got a glimpse of the game they were pursuing. In the morning before starting hunting I secured 2 shrew with traps: a soray, a Pachygnathus.