The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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to a gun store where we were told by the manager that the Chinese Government did not allow them to keep only a few guns for sale at a time but most of their stocks must be kept in the vault, warehouse where permission for direct guns another sale was given by the vault. Shot shells (Peters loaded) were 8.50 Mex 1.00 which is not high landed here. From the gun store we went to the Chinese fur shops on Homan Road. Most of the furs are said to come from Manchuria, all were well tanned. They had series of skins of snow leopards with the claws attached for $3.00. 48.00 Mex. Highly colored orange tigers were 150.00 Mex. White a guy was spinning large size 7 were 15.00 Mex 20.00.