How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 81
sengers. Carriages andwagons are seldom seen in Chinese cities. Here is a barber carrying on his businessright in the street. People mend shoes andeven cook meals in these narrow, crowded streets. If you are to walk about in a Chinese city atnight, it will be well to carry a lantern, for the 64 HOW… … Fig. 24. — Ridins: in a Wheelbarrow. have no homes upon the land. They live onboats or rafts. These floating homes are to beseen along some of the rivers. By means ofropes they are fastened to the banks so that theycannot drift away. On many of these boats there are tiny vegeta- A VISIT TO CHINA 65…
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