Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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"His wife who has hunted with him in B.E.A., asked me to lunch where I met her husband. He has shot in India an elephants during our tiger & has killed 100 in this way. His record of leopard has been 200 which is the highest in India. He has however shot no elephants or rhinoceros. At Darjeeling he has bagged a very large bear a black (hind awn) of 650 lbs, weight in the flesh. He has kept very few of his early trophies but his African has been preserved by his wife. The rifles he used are chiefly 470 Holland cordite x 350 Jeffry magnums which have never failed him. I visited another sportsman also an invalid to an incurable sort of paralyzing rheumatism.