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home at Kuliang. In the evening we took dinner with tea!  Trimble's, a missionary doctor.  Night very hot & still without any breeze whatever.

(5)  We all went to Kuliang with Kellogg for Sunday. Spent the morning sorting specimens.  The usual clothing worn by the cooly class, both sexes is deep blue [[strikethrough]] serge [[/strikethrough]] cotton dyed by the indigo which is cultivated here extensively.  The upper wealthy class men wear white duck or silk & the soldiers a bright yellow, lemony [[?haku]].  The coolly women do their hair up in a knot with 2 or 3 steel daggers as hair pins through [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] the knot.  Reached the top of the hill at dark & was met by Caldwell who took me to his house.  Caldwell illustrated Chinese word tones by the use of "dong, dong, dong," in three tones meaning you are carrying your [[strikethrough]] shoe [[/strikethrough]] load wrong.  In order to give the different tones, a singing 

Transcription Notes:
haku - a lei/garland worn on the head Reviewed