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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a uniform red brown muddy stream. Seabirds were quite lacking, the only birds at in sight being a few brown bits. 14 The sea has been beautifully smooth today. The sun bright & the water deep blue but no seabirds have appeared in this calm scene. One of the remarks Brumstead has made about Wallace's Book on Big Game in China which I loaned him is: Why didn't the Expedition carry a Tent & live in it instead of getting stuck in cramped caves for long rain spells. Hartmann made the same remark about the book. One of the ladies on board has a beautiful gray squirrel cat