The diary of Edmund Heller, October 9, 1917-January 12, 1918 : covering his return trip from the First Asiatic Expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History
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enterprise. He launched with us at the Imperial Hotel + then we took nickshaws for a ride to his house set in the submerged part of town. Halfway to his place we changed our nickshaw for a boat + pulled along the flooded street to his house the basement of which was under water + 3 feet of water stood in his yard, about half of Tientsin is in this aquatic state. He showed us his fritures, He had 3 sheep, bred, at the wall from York Shansi (His judata the named sheep, one of the leastest homes sheeps in the world. He had a white Tabun from Lamsa Burdorcs Bedford, which is a distinct whit race. He showed us the Jodyskin, which was also pure white + used as an egg. He said no other color existed in this northernmost range of the Tabuna. He had