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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which action shows one of the great differences in the 2 peoples 29 Last night Sin the Korean guide took me to a Japanese restaurant where we had sandwiches + saki to drink. The saki was brown but colorless like water skin flavor like the gew gching wher I have no doubt is also nice wine or gin. Some 2 Japanese ladies, at dinner at the drum had they phoned Peter something, the guide who from Japanere told me these 2 men presently appeared much as they saw not of affair could be considered in our own blessed country. These Jap women were immensely excited + vivacious as an any The morning was cloudy windsy with rain storms drety over the landscape. We went at 10 cup whatever to th