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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Transcription
On one of the wide streets of Peking a fair was in progress. Here I saw several falcons with loaded quarrels on their wrists. These birds are used here for catching hares & game birds for the market the price of ammunition to secured game being much greater than the marked price of the game so that maintaining is the method which alone can be successfully employed today.