Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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sympathetic type & makes conversation with everyone even on third class deck. Passengers consisting of Bermuda families. He talks to these women who are quite comely & plays with the babies & mentions half dozen words of Bermudan in talking to them. No impression that the H. L. has divided the world into two classes of people, the sympathetic. The apathetic which division he considered first, essential & fundamental. The A. T. G. Company's a Scotch firm & all the officers on the boat & shore offices as well are Scotch,