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Journal of Stanley Hedberg

Edited and annotated by Paul Michael Taylor
Asian Cultural History Program
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution

Tuesday
September 7
1926


The river was still high so it was no go today. The morning past [sic] quickly. Dick went hunting and returned with another crown pigeon. We are living on turkey now days and Oh Boy good is no name for it. Late this afternoon a prow came down from Head Camp with a few soldiers and a couple of Dyaks to see how we were faring. They are going to try to take up two prows tomorrow with just a little food in them [–] rice and deng deng, mostly deng deng for they are short of food up in upper head camp. Doc, Leroux and Posthumus are inside and Dr. Hoffman and Van Leeuwen are at head camp.



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