Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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below this altitude it is dryer without mossy ground. Frog train prevail almost daily above 11,000 feet. On the ridge at 12 o we saw some small bushes of a peculiar square leaved shrub with bearing large black berries. (23) No big game was hunted today as the dog shunters both needed a rest. These moss hunters are good woodmen and hard as nails. They camped in the open while we on the mountain, I refuse tents. They slept beside a camp fire rain or clear weather. I am physically the hardest men I have met. T.D. Chinen are quite the reverse, I observe took little of any brand even in fine weather. The brutos set at base of the mountain near the old temple, produced 3 Providence several large sized mice + a long tailed kang arodeums + small Ebrops.