Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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materials directed outward & very wide. Their lips + mouth are also large + strangely features generally being a different than that. I mean our camp when many Gigphis trees bearing the yellow fruit which is eatable + monkey nutters monkey. The tree had sprus, but dark shiny leaves but live ash in appearance. None of the natives here eat monkey meat & tho some of the hunters have shot specimens purs. The skins I havent seen in any where either but the monkeys are quite wary & difficult to approach so they are probably shot as often, In weeks hunting the gigphus became so many that they could not be approached without exercising extreme caution. 8) I spent the day at Hue Peym but without results. A went out driving with 2 women & Darw morgane. Should get my photo show me where the