Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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Pale colored like Kentucky tobacco. It is very mild, as some snooked had scarcely any tobacco taste or odor at all but the tongue like most mild tobacco. They make it in a brass pipe a pinch at a time good for 3 puffs 6 Last night the Main Caine in violent wind squalls, one of which at midnight blew my tent down. During the morning I hunted in a grove of large green trees from which I noted the killer fly with its network of strangled branches & trunk continued about several trees. Another tree had a giant erect trunk to spreading crown. A common tree here is a large tree with an immense spreading crown & a short buttressed trunk often of great diameter (15-18 feet). Of five olive squirrels seven seen in the trees 2 of the squirrels were bagged. At noon M.