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went over to another monastery
north of this one where atiger
has been reported. Kellogg
told me last night of the great
ignorance of most Chinese. Then
when realize that the world is
round or that it travels about
around the sun. Nor do they
know the nature of the stars.
A Chinaman in gyneclecter
at the Panama canal fits benefits
to China spent all his lecture
how appealing to to the audience
that the world was round. The
worship in the Buddhist temple
here goes on regularly day & night
for only one or two priests take part,
there is nothing going at dusk
with thunder from a drum. At
4 am there is some drumming &
belling also and at sunrise again.
The inner part of the main temple
has three figures of Buddha
from the ceiling are suspended square
lanterns, On the floor are rows of
programmes but the whole
silence is dingy & crude.