Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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(2) We broke camp & return to the temple at the village this morning. I went with the dog & the 2 hunters along the mountain side hunting. We went at the 12,000 foot level thru the circle or basin where A shot his 2 sprag yesterday. The dog however were tired & kept us followed as our heels & took no notice of fresh trails or tracks, some got nothing or saw any game. The forest from this elevation to timber-line is made up of fir trees only. Today I saw some of the trees with cones & these stood upright, under no trees are cones as in the case of spruce which are the common tree from 1000 to 900 feet. Abv 900 feet the character of the trees & bushes changes radically due no doubt to moisture condition. The upper level abv 11,000 are very much the floor with moss being a carpet of moss & herbs.