Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (1 of 5)
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While we were at this Sr. Caldwell was attacked on his stairs by a leach & when he first noticed his wound he found a stream of blood flowing into his shoe & dripping on the brick pavement of the monastery. This is a kind leach & deposit in the blood a serum which prevents it from coagulating so that it the blood cannot coagulate. This was the first leach Caldwell had ever seen. Andrew says these leaches are common in the Philippines & Borneo. China is doubtless their northern limit. (4) Reached Hiochoon early, som after midnight & ca tied to the wharf where we had stayed. We all went ashore at daylight & tramped up the narrow streets to Kellogg's house where we took breakfast. Stay clear of Sr. Caldwell as he left in the afternoon for their,