Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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country. Redmuntjar the serow skin was also seen. + purchased. A leopard skin was in the market also. Jamboree muntjac, brown bear + leopard were said to occur 5 days south near the Burma border. The young shares here wear the usual blue sarng shwar wearing shorts + t-shirts with bare unbound feet, they are a short stocky people with large heads + homely features. The day here was a market day but the chief products seemed to be bundles of horse- tail rushes, grapes, etc. with some turnip tops, to broad short coarse tasting banana. The shares here are all said to be suspicious of strangers fearing that they are spying detectives. They are said to count animals by driving with dogs they finish the dry grass, driving with rhinosmen. Today I tried some of the tobacco on men's smoke. This fire shredded it.