Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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their language we must follow them blindly about which is very irritating, though there are easy to move at year if needed only get the men to drive them one may not would even have 74 or 5 instead of only one which I secured by refusing to follow my guide into cover but remain on a field where I could see all the surrounding fields & shot the stag as it left cover crossed one of their openings. The clumps are very distinct & difficult to direct on this account. They always seem to have some better way of doing anything than you suggest if they insist on doing it there I way. 15) Three two hunters assisted me today with 3 small terriers. We beat out the ravine of the two sandlur but saw nothing in the forest at the summit, those dogs ran a quantity then the forest & down into deep