Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 117
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Transcription
"One point but apparently played me to pass on being looking forward to the scrub away from the river. After she'd gone well ahead it flew up tops as if danger. The rest of the land I saw a few 100 yards further down along along the open sand and rock beach which it followed for an hours sitting on the top of an exposed rock back to which I did not move to stalk the bird but did not get a shot. This bird was seen at 10 AM. In the evening I again returned to hunt sea fowls at 5 P.M., but saw none after that. The sky was partly overcast, as it was shading at lots with river mile ahead a splashing with water opposite our tent animals swimming widely side by side enjoying the water themselves. They seemed to be in full flight. I left the water when I saw they were after red mullets. It