Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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feet + some wearing shirt of the common blue serge. On the outskirts of the village two parties of small savages were seen picking the skeleton of some domestic animal I shot several of these + Afri wi carried them followed by a great host of Calvary men than the village. The villagers stared at us in groups & were much amused by my shooting down with the .22 automatic. The valley of Itseao Mung being is a picturesque affair for all sides tall spire like mountains rise bound, it separated by deep narrow gorges. The forest is chiefly pine in blocks in & semi cultivated state. (4) We continued on way along a ridge then fishing & gathering fibers of trees of spruce & alders. After tiffin we descended into a small valley to a town location or a town where the