Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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March 6 We continued our hunt for old & gibbons but without results. Located about by their wailing notes at 10 A.M. but they were timid + sneaked away after I approached the trees they were in noislessly + moved only when they called to assist to be heard stalking. Their notes are quite varied when nearly & clearly like rather than a wail. As I was leaving camp in the morning I shot a fine & grangleford Assoumoo monkeys along one which was caught in one of my rat traps at below camp frighting Ju-mo so that he did not bring it to camp + in the P.M. when I went out hunt the place trap was bare none. We moved camp up the Valley over the lake trail & crossed the river. Have seen + camped across the creek where lived here where Shan villages. These people are not decided by talking + done my bird playing moves with the