Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 162
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
at this time abandoned + grass covered, we stopped at dark at 6:45 at a village in De Saran fieldy Belmoro in Deep gorge the Shivel River Moored. Rhododendron were in blossom with forest body on road. There was a rose jub species, a large white flowered one + the 'large Carmine species', no other flowering trees now in evidence. (25) On the early morning we went with the village guides apron hunting. Our path led over the bridge + then another village + then down the river following the base of some cliffs, just after passing the village we sighted 2 monkeys at +? feeding far below on a gassy hillside. I hit the ? thu scared shot the rolled down hill a few yards + then hitted in some weeds. Later he got up + ran swiftly down with into cover where me.