Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (3 of 5)
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had a girl of elephants stowed about his waist & was topwood below the trees also with figures of tigers. This is the first chance I have seen tattooed below the laces to any extent. I collected another red rat [illegible] one of the Shoftailed Squirrel Alomaw small shrew a Pachyura morain fell today all this it was cloudy as usual with a heavy gaud mist in the morning. Considerate opium is raised here either we have seen no pipes. The Shews have little difficulty in winning the Chinese officials & allow them to bid break the law. A few rupees is sufficient. A pair is a large mother is assembling in the village below her today at jo chun where the number seems only within 3 years, a long unusual interval. [26] The natives who live here