Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (4 of 5)
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again but there was so much surface water standing near that we did not dare wade thru it to the trunk. I saw many fine teak trees labelled in the garden. They are a large tree, tree with great pale green oval leaves a foot long by six wide. The trunk is smooth & reddish brown in color. There were also growing in the garden Sal or Shorea trees. These are the chief teak tree They have rather large leaves & a rough bark. The Bombay Burma Trading Co are the chief teak shippers of Burma & all their managers are college men, Major Whitmore was employed on the Salveon teak cutting by this company.