Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 87
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"The small are too large to see as all were in the herd opposite. The herd scampered away from the bamboo & were now out of sight. A herd was at length seen specimens today. The three genera of monkeys which have collected here are all that occur in India a chiro as day animals & they are all fairly common here. The gibbons are doubtless the rarest type; they call contemually (they are the most easily to locate so well as the most confid. I saw my first palm of considerable size today in the forest, there is maiden hair Claved species 30 feet tall with a trunk stem 10 inches in diameter. 5 Another day was spent hunting monkeys. Met the Semnopithecus in the same trees near the road but they scampered away on my first shot & I failed to get any. Saw some appeared to have orange bellies, but later discovered an