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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Crop in the common palbuddot Reimons. These Games were American base ball chiefly at the flying story aeroplanes operated by 2 stem propeller, roundup by a rubber bands tossed into the air, to sail neither they wishes ; Japanese children are a gay lot & thoroughly imbued by the spirit of games of play just as European children are. The similarity of these young Japs to Europeans children is closer than any many adults when a certain dignified bearing & a set ceremonial attitude makes the Japanese every different appearing from Europeans.