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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November 127 Dawnbeck 7 am + Discovered myself travel Turn Rice fields with an Occasional tea garden + fruit Clad hills. From Tensay - Nigama River Kuyishun until its main was visible in a clear story, The river is a wide gravel mud flan but very shallow. Know it a clean part of country with the snow covering. Flora Nympis is visible. Further on near Elizabontown we arrived 8:45 vertical farming was in practice The 1st I had seen in Japan In gardens composed over these farms which run well to the tops of mountain with hills. On this less steep with terraces were inhabitants.