Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 137
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"full blossom. There is also a soft cream white speckled species with a very delicate perfume like a magnolia" Two figs or palm can be here but brownlow is everywhere the commonest fresh undergrowth. 4) Theday was clear calm all morning the heavy windbreak beginning until afternoon. A Shot and old J gilbert large size long Brownish. He said to shot at several large black as a bird trees on a steep sided ravine. I went on with a Liso hunter who carried a cross bow gun with launching dart, He was dressed in silver beggars + short wide breech pants much like the English Order wear. His feature more to his head was a turban of a blue cloth twirl along his head in a rope like roll. He carried my rifle & his cross bow on his back. Just on leaving camp me heard gilberts calling below camp + we descended in