Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 28
re of bars and carriedas the travellers own chair is carried.More often a package is slung at eachend of a bar, which is placed across theshoulders of a coolie. Constant changeof shoulder is necessary, and the stop-ping to make this change becomes aserious matter in a journey of anylength. It is… … A TRAVELLER ARRIVING AT AN INN IN MANCHURIA, CARRIAGE OF MERCHANDISE. It will be seen that two coolies, bymeans of these bars, can carry a greatweight—as much as two hundredpounds is carried between them—and they will cover with this weighttwenty to twenty-five miles a day.Chair-carriers will, with…
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