Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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Horsepox Bralley uses X-rays and an old oil remedy. 2G Reached Heifang Haiphong at 1 P.M. At daylight were off a very broken coast where hundreds of gizzelochs could be seen raising their fantastic shapes. Arrived at mouth of the Red River & steamed for an hour up the river. The land here is a broad level plain without mountains & the banks are low & bright green with grass & herbs. Forest is not noticeable to any degree. The river was very muddy & brownish red by silt. When we stopped awhile on the river opposite the town a swarm of boatmen with their sampans bowed as clamoring for luggage. We finally got into a row with them after they had dropped overboard a heavy box of ammunition. This box was afterward rescued by a strike at the cartridges dried in the engine room.