Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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material practically. The institution or its collection rather are just decayed. New material is much needed here. The only really modern feature of the place is the library. 3 A residents dance in the Town Hall near Swt. House occupied us in the evening. The soldiers were there in pairs their ladies were chiefly Eurasians, very few European girls being in evidence. Some Scotch pipers rent the air with their weird bagpipes during one fete dance interval. Hands came off the building while the dancers shifted, but those who danced were