Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 116
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Transcription
No moderations in summer, the rice fields are cultivated by the villagers of charming-lung, which lies 200 feet above the river in a pine forest. They are no native tribes here but people speaking Chinese only alter in features they show some Chinese characters. The Salmon in depth & shape is identical to that of the Midway in the same latitude both being deep V shaped and affords valley's with good land floor of much extent, 23. The night was raining hot- to the morning dawned rainy. Out at 9 am. It went down the river to the far foul hounds & saw how the next weather being favorable to them. The fish was ones on the open sand beach where struck the g. This bird was an old 5 x odd one see it until it flew up much game with long beats & rows. Fired shot at 78 down the shot had no effect. This bird I found by its death was without a single gun shot.