Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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Kelly told me that many of the mission students who were born in Harboursit said when questioned that they had never crossed the bridge to enter the south city or Harbour proper on the island. Here in Leedover travel out of their province or the range of their language. Between Harbour & Henry King there is another language so different that the missionaries cannot understand any of it, or do the Chinese of Harbours either. This sort of living keeps them at home here so closely that they don't even know the different parts of their own city; in going from Harbour to Arroy 3 languages are necessary to converse with the natives Cook Leong Ming Cherice An. " Ping Siang Names Helper Loh Dooi J Corlies Hunter Hunkila Lau Lea