Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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(20) The night was cool & Clear. I caught a new moon a gray, long-tailed spiny furrow-one. Also caught a T. (illegible) during the day; they apparently do not move about during the night. We broke camp at Yum-mung, at 6:30 just as the sun was rising. The road led thru hills & along small valleys filled with rice & corn fields in about equal proportions. The day was clear but had hot a breeze blowing all day. Yesterday when I was looking a bunch of Chinese boys followed the soldiers & about running along laughing & thoughtless like Caucasians of the same age very different from the dull, indolent, adult males, at mom me.