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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border near the Sacred White Water Lake. Roe Deer he also fed. The wolf he has never shot. Bears he has killed of the head of an large one he showed me mounted. Curtis, affirmed he saw one weighed at 500 lbs. Killed by Natives. This is well overall records for Boars of the world. Underwood [illegible] asked me to send him lists of any literature on Korean animals as he is quite ignorant of such publications. He has never gotten a shot at a tiger but the Koreans have tried to beat them out to him on occasions. It rained all day but notwithstanding I went out after tiffin to the Zoo with the guide. We saw many cages of large mammals, 2 brown bears, one Tiger, 2 Korean long-haired leopards, 2 K. Lynx, 2 K. Psecomorph, [illegible]