Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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16 JUNE new tributary character being green leafy trees, with posilms, or tree ferns, but many bamboos. Below the defile the rain riders on again only around flat country with villages at intervals, 2.5 30 p.m reached Kalka the [illegible] R19 connect small bameese village with white pagoda + many homes, bordering the river: Over Jaling we bear fruit, also a few palms from which the toddy or beer is made. Saddles were lashed to the palms along the loft part of the stem for hold