Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 213
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Transcription
After tiffin we continued our way following the gravelly bed of the river. The boulders + few ledges bordering the water were a White granite. Before reaching Ka - Nai the gravelly bed spreads out 2 or 3 miles wide having in former years carried away all the soil of the bordering rice fields. The accommodation at Ka - Nai was in an old temple in the town which was filled by the branches of school children + quite littered up with straw + dust. The town is of considerable size half Chinese + half Shan. The climate here was quite warm + the nights only + rainy.