Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
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later found around four dark to keep they also proceeded between a pipe very friendly. A few miles further more met Sir win returning with the mule. I Mounted + rode on for camp. Every lot of laden women or men may follow ers asked about the camp. At dark we reached the head of the pass where a farmers hut was situated. The men entered it afterwards. The man offered us rice & vegetables which the men eat & then he supplied us with pitch pine torch. He himself lighted an way for a mile or so down the rough rock paved road which descended at a steep angle. He then returned with his boy without a light giving us the torch. He did this all without taking any reward & was hospitality itself.