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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claimed this fear but she was covered with sort as from fall of them were equally sort over own to the sea being thus covered generally. He said this particular woman because insane jumped overboard after being put into a life boat. One of the sights of Peking is to be obtained from the great well marking the Tartar City. At 3 P.M. I went with Mr. Burnstead to the Observatory which is situated on the east wall at a spot where a stairway of steps leads to the top. The instruments of the observatory nearly bronze mounted on stone bases in the open. There was a sphere with the stars + milky way indicated; a giant sextant marked in degrees was another instrument. Several circles of bronze set at various angles in a common axis. There is a cleared space about the well on its inner.