Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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were seen & I feel that they are quite rare here. No palms was seen but a few large slender aloes grow in the joints. Giant bamboo filled all the creek beds. Biting insects + mosquitoes were not met with. As dark as I was waiting for lots in the forest & saw on the top of a side tree two monkeys sitting on, ahead may well out of reach of leopard's or other climbing carnivores. I started them & found that there were really two pairs of monkey. the pairs sitting beside each other tapping away as one. At first but they got angry & moved. A caught a palm sith. A new moment for this place also a fine gobber & again. The Shon hunter shot a flg of the large gray long tailed monkeys. (3) I went out & put a rifle to the same place where we saw the monkeys yesterday but we failed to find any as