Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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Your man since the Mahun rebellion 30 years ago. Old demonials & vacant places are still evidence in T of of the former great populace. here.) Tali fell after the 2 pass, Shari Ndan (up), + Karinga Kum (down) were taken by the Chinese troops, than the people in Tali were massacred without offering resistance. 13 The Majors did not come until 9 AM to take the load, some did not get started until 11:30. Our loads numbered 26. The beasts, were smaller horses smaller than much inferior to our Li-chiang caravans. The day was pretty cloudy cold & windy. People were wet on the way, some with merchants' stuff but chiefly wood caravans. The only game we saw was a large flock of geese in a rice field near Tali-fu. We met quite many Tibetans with groups of women in brown & lanos in red travelling on foot in small