Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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30 The first day I hunted yoral I was attracted to one by a sharp bird like sawt or bark. This sound of alarm I have not heard since & is given only rarely. Teng-yuel is a walled town the wall of the same size & structure as that of Tai-fo. Outside the wall is an cleared space or grassy meadow + a shallow dry moat. Inside the town are many open gardens + even ponds, many of the people (all the Europeans) live outside the town. The streets of the town are wide like those of Yunnan fu. The remaining benefit for yoral netted nothing but in the afternoon I shot thru a fine range which was pointed out to me by a party of Chinese from the road. He himself isleep on a ledge near the base of the large cliff about 30 yards from the western or road.