Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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attract them. 4) Rev. Kock remained until yesterday + told me several about the country, the Mono + Tibetans. In the afternoon he took me to one of the village houses so where buttered tea the chief dish of the Tibetans, I tasted much of butter which is churned into it & very little tea. Walnuts are also added + some spices. Another dish he tasted was tsamba, the staple food of Tibet. This is roasted oat meal mixed with the buttered tea; I tasted quite good, In the morning a shepherd brought a fine & black muntjac Elophus which he found dead in the forest. Showing that yesterday by the Solu hunters you doubt. The stomach of this animal contained gray beard chicken + afew wild leaves + aspen, apples but no grass