. China, its marvel and mystery. n to the boat, the fisherman takesthe fish. A ring placed round the cormorants neck pre-vents it swallowing the fish. The Woo Men Bridge at Soochow is another andone of the finest of these beautiful buildings crossing theGrand Canal, cleanly built of face stone, and taking agraceful sweep upwards and over the great arch. Soochow is rather like Hangchow, but not, I think,so beautiful, in spite of the Chinese proverb which Imention in my Hangchow chapters. The streets are 57 CHINA: ITS MARVEL AND MYSTERY narrow, with good shops, and the usual bustling t
. China, its marvel and mystery. n to the boat, the fisherman takesthe fish. A ring placed round the cormorants neck pre-vents it swallowing the fish. The Woo Men Bridge at Soochow is another andone of the finest of these beautiful buildings crossing theGrand Canal, cleanly built of face stone, and taking agraceful sweep upwards and over the great arch. Soochow is rather like Hangchow, but not, I think,so beautiful, in spite of the Chinese proverb which Imention in my Hangchow chapters. The streets are 57 CHINA: ITS MARVEL AND MYSTERY narrow, with good shops, and the usual bustling the way these narrow streets seem to me to give agreatly exaggerated idea of the population of Chinesecities, the people being so crowded together in thenarrow lanes. We had a look at the famous pagoda in this city. Itis of great age, nine storeys in height, with an immensecircumference at the base. It is built with double walls,the staircase occupying the space between. 58 THE BRIDGE AT KWANGFOONG As seen from a Mandarins CHAPTER X HANGCHOW House-boat Trip to Bing-oo, Hangchow, &c.—Sketching Confucian Temple atBing-oo — Crockery Purchase — Sacred Tortoise — Widows Monument — MyFriends Efforts to Photograph—On to Kashing—Gramaphone. T GLADLY accepted a friends kind loan of his house-I boat, and proceeded to make arrangements for anJ. excursion through some of the waterways roundShanghai. Another kindly friend, who was to accom-pany me for the first week or so, fitted up electric fans,with accumulators strong enough to work for some weeks,a very great boon for the hot nights we were now get-ting. The Scout was a roomy house-boat. The lawdah(skipper) engaged his crew of six coolies. My boy agreedto add to his other duties that of cook, and laid in manystores, solid and liquid ; the ice chest was filled up, anda further store put under the fore-deck, with many bottlesof filtered and distilled water—and we were ready. A beautiful evening at the end of May saw
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