Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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the way led thru rice fields & pasture where caribou & Indian elk cattle were grazing. Fields of corn, cane & bananas were often seen on the roadside. Forests covered the hillsides. Las Brujas are hot springs on the shores of a giant lagoon of freshwater. They are baths in pools only rare with sulphur minature. Ranied at noon a few minutes, reached Manila at 4 P.M. Seal & his wife then took me out to the aquarium. Here I saw many coral reef fish I never before saw in captivity. They were different from those seen at Honolulu. There was also a sea snake, the poisonous yellow one banded by brown. Their snakes are