Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
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the exchange by getting Gold certificates, at the present time travel here on U.S. gold money is very high as the silver dollar is worth about 70 cents gold where normally it is worth only 50 cents! At 5 P.M. I attended a lecture on Yunnan man at the museum under the auspices of the Chinese section of the Asiatic Society of Great Britain. The lecturer Mr. Wilson spent 2 years in Yunnan much of it in Eastern Yunnan where not even missionaries have travelled. He accompanies Col. Yunghusband as adjutant officer at Thessa also,