Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ethod. Each carrier, with his two bundles, receiveda pair of tally sticks. At the gang-plank sat a man with a tally-case divided into twenty compartments, each of which couldreceive five, but no more, tallies. As the bundles left the steamerthe tallies were placed in the tally-case until it contained onehundred, when it was exchanged for another. Wuchow is a city of some 65,000 inhabitants, standing backon the higher ground, not readily visible from the steamer landingnor from the approach on the river. On the fo
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . ethod. Each carrier, with his two bundles, receiveda pair of tally sticks. At the gang-plank sat a man with a tally-case divided into twenty compartments, each of which couldreceive five, but no more, tallies. As the bundles left the steamerthe tallies were placed in the tally-case until it contained onehundred, when it was exchanged for another. Wuchow is a city of some 65,000 inhabitants, standing backon the higher ground, not readily visible from the steamer landingnor from the approach on the river. On the foreground, acrosswhich stretched the anchor chains of the dock, was living afloating population, in shelters less substantial than Indian wig-wams, but engaged in a great variety of work, and many waterbuffalo had been tied for the night along the anchor July much of this area would lie beneath the flood watersof the river. Here a ship-builder was using his simple effective bow-brace,boring holes for the dowel pins in the planking for his ship, and MATTING RUSH 85. 86 UP THE SI-KIANG, WEST RIVER another was bending the plank to the proper curvature. Thebow-brace consisted of a bamboo stalk carrying the bit at oneend and a shoulder rest at the other. Pressing the bit to its workwith the shoulder, it was driven with the string of a long bowwrapped once around the stalk by drawing the bow back andforth, thus rapidly and readily revolving the bit. The bending of the long, heavy plank, 4 inches thick and 8inches wide, was more simple still. It was saturated with water
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