A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . are quick about their work, and havea good reputation for ability and honesty. Whenever onecomes out on the sidewalk, about a dozen rickshaw menrun around shouting in Chinese that they desire to haulyou wherever you wish to go. Most of them cannot speakEnglish, and if you hire one of them you must know thecity well enough to know where you wish to go, and thendirect the rickshaw man which way you wish to turn ateach corner. These rickshaws are in great numbers in allparts of the city. Any merchandise like boxes, barrels, orcasks, or material for building
A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . are quick about their work, and havea good reputation for ability and honesty. Whenever onecomes out on the sidewalk, about a dozen rickshaw menrun around shouting in Chinese that they desire to haulyou wherever you wish to go. Most of them cannot speakEnglish, and if you hire one of them you must know thecity well enough to know where you wish to go, and thendirect the rickshaw man which way you wish to turn ateach corner. These rickshaws are in great numbers in allparts of the city. Any merchandise like boxes, barrels, orcasks, or material for building, such as stone, timber, orany heavy freight, is placed on trucks or carts and pushedor hauled by men. The sampan is a small boat about twenty or thirty feetlong with a few bamboo sticks bent over the middle of theboat, and covered with canvas; under this there are seatsfor four to eight persons. The fare on a sampan is twentycents Mexican or Hong Kong money; they usually carryone large sail and are manned by the whole family. One 141. w H < w< en Q o=q 2:;O Pi W ow we were in had the father in the stern to guide the boat,and two big lusty daughters to hoist the sail and pull onoars, also a little daughter, four years old, with an infantthree months old strapped to her back. We asked thefather how long this little girl carried the baby; he said allday. Usually, the whole family live on the sampan andsail it, and there are a great number of them always readyto take you in a short time to any place in the tourist usually goes up the river from Hong Kong,one nights run on the river boats, to Canton, a purel}Chinese city of one and a half million population. Upon reaching Canton, we were greeted by ourguides. Ah Kum and one of his sons, who were to take ourparty of seven through the maze of Canton streets. Wewere each seated in a Sedan chair carried by three men;the streets were so narrow that we were carried one behindthe other, with Ah Kum in front, and his son i
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