Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
Page 145
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Transcription
' Red sand-stan clerded country. Lima bean & graves sports. All the animals are loose, shut, after break fast the men broke eaten their rice + the animals saddled they go on 3 horse-ways until dark & camp in a village. Camped at noon on a fine grassy prairie dotted by grove trees. The spurs are used on riding animals, not only by men means as the animals do not understand them + refuse to go forward when spurred. The walk prelimine met in such large quantities or the road came from wells near Taiki- for Reached for Ferry at 6 Pm + camped in a temple in the town. At noon an morning camp we passed thru a grove of sturdy chestnut trees loaded with their crops & cultivated. Before noon, at about 10 AM we pass thru a very denuded country of wild tulip trees. The plantation residents.