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Did the Chinese copy the design from the [[underline]] Dutch [[/underline]] or did the latter get their inspiration from the [[underline]] Chinese? [[/underline]] Water is [[underline]] becoming muddier than ever [[/underline]] low lying shores made by flat islands and the channel which runs between seems like a wide muddy River, hence many people [[underline]] think Sanghai [[/underline]] is on the Yang-Tse River while it is situated in the Bay.
[[vertical annotation in left margin]] This is Whang-Poo Bay. [[/vertical annotation]]
Very busy water way. [[underline]] Japanese Steamers [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] seem [[/strkethrough]] [[underline]] freighters, [[/underline]] seem to predominate some steamers fly [[underline]] Chinese flag. Steamers flying flags of every nation [[/underline]] 
Our boat is the largest to enter this harbor. [[underline]] Endless succession of Chinese Sail boats [[/underline]] of every description, and of every size. [[underline]] Some almost square fore and aft [[/underline]] and of which the hull reminds of the shape of a punt, easy to build and easy to apply
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leeboards on the sides while the easily slanting fore and aft lifts the boat easily in a pitching sea. Wood [[strikethrough]] sea [[/strikethrough]] seems teak even in the humbler boats. 
[[image: diagram of hull of boat]] 
Some hulls seem unpainted unvarnished, others painted black others have green & red colors with yellow thrown in the combination. Anchors seem crude and are of the 4 hook grappling iron type. 
[[strikethrough]] [[image: diagram of sail rigging]] 
The [[underline]] bamboo stays keep the sails very flat [[/underline]] and the bridled sheets with a rope form each stay, [[strikethrough]] keep [[/strikethrough]] add to the flatness of the sails, which stay much flatter than our sails. 
[[image: diagram of sail rigging]]
There [[underline]] bridle [[/underline]] ropes are rather thin, and set in about the same ways as a