Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
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Transcription
(6) This afternoon the weather was fine and sunny & I visited Zi Pa-wai where the French fathers have a [illegible]. I found the Museum gate closed but the Rickshaw boy took me to the school where a French father in his long black robe & flowing beard addressed me in English. He told me to try again as one of the Fathers lived in the Museum. This father was very gentle in his manner & pleasant, a few yards further on the road I met another father near the Industrial School who was down in black robe & long beard. He talked very pleasantly in English & told me of this