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a boy who Woo brought from Teng yueh came solely on the chance of getting some blood from a Sambur for his sick grandmother. He is returning tomorrow to Teng-yueh with the blood. This evening I saw a muntjac in a field. Later we flushed a [[female symbol]] Sambur in some scrub bamboo. We heard a rustling noise like [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] pheasants make & expected a muntjac at most & waited 10 minutes for some animal to appear. Finally the guide thru [[sic]] a pine cone in the thicket & out bolted a Sambur at top speed but I missed her as she darted thru the trees. For dinner we had some Sambur tenderloin & it was delicious without strong odor or bad flavor
[[circle]] 12 [[/circle]] We again went Sambhur shooting this morning [[?]]ing a course up the hill & along the ridge where last night I flushed the [[female symbol]] Sambhur. After quite a lot of beating a large one was put out of a wooded ravine by the dogs.  Only one

Transcription Notes:
Whether he spells it Sambar, Sambur, or Sambhur, the animal is a Sambar - a large horned deer indigenous to Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent (for pics, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambar_deer).