Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 76
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made of bamboo the pillars & thatch is depleted I can't say, almost red spring net like the one taken on the Neponset first but larger. Several finches were trapped today. 24 Another red net was sewn in the forest below camp, also one of the gray spring mice as well as a bushy-tailed rat & large R pipings. A small agouti in wheel traps. The birds here are all very slay as any native carries gun & shoot game for the food. Several birdmen few in number & species and are also very slay. Today while shooting at some red bellied squirrels I blundered upon a large black Parrot or parakeet in a tree. They looked us close as monkeys as they saw them jump away. 25 One of our hunters brought in a long gray monkey which he had shot. This makes