Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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as a gay chap about town at present. He has hunted in Kashmir much as well as Port. East Africa & Brit. E. Afr. In India he has killed elephants, rhinos, many antelopes (common mapiti) etc. - Michael 28 Sunday morning & I drove out to Barrackpore a station 10 miles up the Hoogly, where we expected to take tiffin. The ride out was on a well shaded broad avenue of trees with villages at intervals. A large jute mill stands at the station. The hotel (now) deserted some returned to Calcutta P.O.B. 29 Spent the morning & afternoon at the Indian Museum looking at the