Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 173
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weather Dear Mr Packard 24 Specimens. [25] Went at early daybreak with Albertsen to hunt wild red dogs on the slopes of the large hill just south of the Custom house only 2 miles out of town. We saw no game but Albertsen & Palmer have both seen a pair here several different times, & gotten within 100 yds but never shot a gun range. [26] Again I went out for wild dogs, this time with Palmer to the same place but we saw nothing. The morning was rainy & misty. At 3 P.M. on driving back out of Mexican verandah I saw a red fox running cross the field which approached & ran between Fletcher's house compound & brewery & hid in some tanbo near the city wall. A black dog had flushed the fox some time before & was following it slowly with great difficulty & soon gave up the chase! This is the first fox I have seen in China.