Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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Transcription
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.