Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
Page 236
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Everything feel the heat, The varnished finisher sticks To your clothing when you sit in a chair or lean on a table. 14 I heard as [illegible] Burns bands played near the circuit house & sweet hither & investigated. The band consisted of usual banjo or banal drums a flute, a series of brass bells or gongo going sound like - zarrimba & agambol made of slabs of tanbo. The music was like that of the Turkish Hush - Rundi sort of dance music but their were no dancers. The musicians were chiefly boyos,