Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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being clothed in yellow - a brown foliage & the other two, large leaves to being in green foliage. The people here are much like by Honio Map. Very few are seen with guns but the Moros but many carry cross-bows - all a broad bladed sword with a truscale tip. At noon we reached an elevated plain north 2 villages on its edges both called Tzu-Tzu (stone-step). Here there is a small army post & a 2nd class Mandarin. We camped on the parade grounds & while encamped the rice fields which occupied the whole plain. Slacks they were here piled up on the ridgeland trees which is the common method of keeping hay out of reach of stock. Elevation almost on foot, 1000 feet almost. Never later an last night's camp. [20] The shortest day in the year at this latitude not very short. Playlight extend from 6:30 AM to 6 PM. The darkening quite equal round about the year round. Sun rise is 7:30 & sun set 5 PM.