Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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Transcription
Some of the great gray Cranes with red Necks were dancing. The dance was complicated & novel. They walked straight out spread wings first then took a several high steps & whiled about in a circle. The step mangements were like a fallet. 5 at 10' Am. I took a buttery ride to the Kabaget temple, a hindu shrine on the banks of a canal north of the Maidan. Here I saw great numbers of hindus M & F & children. one of the common sacrifices in beheading a goat, the blood which lies in pools on the stone floor. At the banks of the canal were many men women walking about performed before worship.