Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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Transcription
(3) The morning was bright + sunny with overcast sky in the afternoon + light shower at sunset. The marking white chervot of Kipkinge Mandalay is seen on useby women everywhere. It consists of maize husk rolled into a long tube 7 filled by crumpled tobacco leaves. The women are inveterate smokers + are seldom without the marking white chervot stick which they carry in their homes. My young boys smoke even better can walk it is said. The climate of midday is very humid + sticky.