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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worn white clothes. In places the valley narrowed away pine clad & grass grown hills. At some villages fields of mulberry bushes were seen, sericulture being one of the Korean Industries. Open fields of tarow leaned Taro greeted no dirt, rice was practically the only crop. After tiffin I reached rice fields long since harvested where Koreans were plowing with an ox yoked to a spade shaped plow like the furrow number 2 California; At 4 P. M. I reached Yuseon station where rough cliffs & high peaks bordered the RR. There were pine clad & looked like cover for goat & deer.