Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 215
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
"a jacket & a tall turban. The material is a black serge or cotton cloth. These women have good features & are neater more comely than their Chinese sisters. They are rather stoutly built heavy legs & broad naked feet. We stopped for tipping on the river margin & I saw many Shan men & boys coming the street both men & women did appeared bathing together in groups & thus, I have no doubt is daily accustom. The Chinese I never seen bathing both men or women. At 4 P.M. we reached Hsiar Hsin Kai a