Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
Page 87
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sculler one only came 100 yds in front of us. Then the bore rushed across with this added volume great wall of water, a great wall 15 feet high travelling with a rush of 15 or more miles an hour, it was a wonderful sight, one that will always remain indelible on the memory. There were no gajubs or other boats on the river as none could weather the monster wave, after the bore had passed there remained a turbulent boiling sea of muddy water heaving and snapping thinning like a thousand devils and as rushed about with water as nature