Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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The stairways were all curved and melting. The doorways were panels of melting sliding in arrangements. No nails or screws were used on the structure. Several cases of such work were seen. Some old wooden chairs, a bright green tea for bitter taste was served as a ceremonial. Afterward what tea + a sweet jelly-like gelatinous food wrapped in bamboo leaves. The railroad trip to Tongjiang from villages + ricefields with groves of apricots in some places. The dwelling homes were all alike in architecture: all had black slate tiles, much of a pyramid shape dish. There were no European styles in