Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 30
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… … CARRIAGE OF MERCHANDISE. THE MODE OF CARRYINGOIL AND WINE In wicker baskets lined with oiledpaper of extraordinary toughness, whichis much used everywhere. The oil isobtained from various oil seeds, thetough paper by macerating bamboo.Beneath the bashet will be noticed along cylinder. This is the…
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