Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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Bengalis some quite as black stirred as any negro. The men often have heavy curls of black hair on the chest, homewere. Many of the children were mulatto their parents only half colad. The road follows the Grand Trunk R or E. G. RR & is a well macadamized level road most of the way. Much of the time we recent travelled at 35 miles an hour, after leaving Burdwan we embarked into Bamanagel which we reached at half at 9 P.M. Here we stopped in the Lake Bengalown Our distance from Chander by road was 120 miles. During the last days we met many night-jars on the roadway & saw one