Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
Page 148
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The villages are all stank filthy & foul smelling pathways exceptions Pugs prows in its roads, chickens & dogs add to the fells, The children are all dirty & rummled on rags, Poverty is everywhere without any good house or shiny play of wealth. The physical types wereal very Chinese no slaved people. Many have high deep noses & are dark in making type, Yankee, tall 6 ft, but some are fleshy or really large They all dress in blue turban men a small black skull cap surrounded by a red towel. The packing methods used here are not constant admiring. The loads set balanced on the saddle tree and no cinch is used past are they ever readjusted on the road. All they sit firmly in