Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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(11) We had another wet day with intervals of sunshine. At night there was hard rain + in the morning low mist + quiet rain. I secured another & Saranopithecus on the same ridge as yester- day. The Liso an army of boys + men armed with bow arrows brought in a fair large? Montjae which they had shot in the leg with a primed arrow. They & said it ran quite away before the person killed it. The person is a vegetable substance, black, tarry in color appearance. (12) Today for the first time we heard gibbons calling. They called at 8 am for a few minutes + all the others got more than mile away we could not find them. The country we travelled down is covered by fine forest of long-leafed oaks + laurels but no figs. The branches here are very wicked not being armed at each node by a whole of short heavy spines which prick you