Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 138
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Search of these. We located them only then call but when under the trees they were in our movements frightened them away. I saw the alarm of aptring brand & foot swings from the tree, at a fast rate for foot for our guns to overtake. The black g gib. came later at 150 yds. but he got bolted out of sight in a few seconds before ashor could be obtained. No more seen or heard nor were returned as 10 AM today. Just below our camp is the a clearing in the forest where Siso family have under cultivation potatoes, Satecom or maize is planted in these same fields as forms their chief crop. (5) Today I was lucky & shot a black g gibbon which I discovered clinging motionless to an upright tree branch on a leafy tree in the dense forest behind camp. There were one other gibbon with this one but it got away unharmed as I was