Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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moved rapidly. The fetus was gray like the parents in color but in a few day's of birth. Some of the goats or mountain sheep were in fat condition. (26) In the morning we again went out for goat. A on the east side I saw the nest. Another goat, a yearling, got to my rifle at 400 yds across the river. In the afternoon I shot an old E in the same spot practically she was on a cliff when I hit her she tumbled down on her back. Her four legs broken high up only A was near the river & he came down to shoot her then the neck as she fell ran to the river margin. She then floated down stream, it was recovered by one of the men who followed it down stream. This one also contained a large fetus. It is quite evident that I early in May the kid got