Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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however paid no attention to the insects & spiders though they stung him. The hole however was too deep to be open by his sword-like bone which he used to chop the entrance so he abandoned his attempt to rob them of their store of honey. 13 During the night it rained hard but stopped at daylight not so hunters came out to cloudy weather or went out with a rifle at 8 am. Soon after we started it began to rain continued until noon. We tramped for 3 hrs thru pine forest but onto rain no getting called nothing could be heard. The mount owing to more grain. I saw a & Sila. Phurnast at close range but shot over him. One retailed squirrel was all I bagged. No small man well were caught by us. 14 Yesterday predictably came for Tang-yeel his in the early morning rain.