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The nearest Chinese character to Heller is Hua by which they know me their being no [[such?]] syllable as hell in Chinese. name [[strikethrough]] cong [[/strikethrough]] could not be written [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] in Chinese but another name, a translation must be used instead. The missionaries use Chinese by writing it phonetically in English & in this way it is greatly simplified & many thousand characters iluminated. Caldwell says all the terraces from Foochow down to mouth of river are rice or sweet potatoes & not tea. Tea is grown only at Yenping & above. The rainest months are from December 30th to July 1st when it often rains daily for long spells or [[strikethrough]] dav [[/strikethrough]] weeks running. From July to December it is dryer but the midsummer is very hot. The finest months are October to December when it is dry & cool. During our trip in July it rained very little & the rice fields were very dry & suffered much
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