Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
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Space to room, some of the buildings on the Bund are new & improving. There is a very fine new Granite Customs house with large clock tower atop. The Chinese P.O. is also a fine new granite Building & the hotel & Business blocks here are 3 or 4 stories high & well built. Some of the old institutions such as the temple of honors has been destroyed recently. 22 At 8 am. took the steam, Honan & departed for Hong Kong. About the clock were now 7 for our Band pass each with its family of Chinese, the husband wife & children of various ages. These women are