Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 191
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Transcription
Steel traps set for wild dog + civet cat (Paradoxurus). It is strange that the gorge cliffs where goats are numerous are not the haunt of leopards + wolves as well. Apparently the goats die here uninviolated as no trace or tracks of carnivore are to be seen here. The gorge shows a ragged rift with brush. Her storm was filled chiefly with blades of green grass + some shrubs. In the afternoon I went out hunting for mountain goat but flushed nothing. A solider bore 17 huts (large Cyclostes?) in camphor near the river. @ Started this morning to hunt serow with 7 men who took me down the river. On leaving the camp I saw a mountain goat in a bean field across the valley 3 or 4 away. I fired + it dropped shoulder to side. There after I put horns in the velvet or rather