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mast is high enough so that forestay, framed over the [[underline]] winch finishes the job [[/underline]] In smaller boats [[underline]] 2 hinged [[/underline]] poles, attached on each side make a [[image: upside down V]] shaped derrick. which can be stayed or lowered and from which a fall [[underline]] and block lifts the mast high enough [[/underline]] until the forestay can lift it further 
The [[underline]] husky hardy Chinese women, all wear trousers, [[/underline]] do small work on the boat. Seem muscular, quick and determined and work at least as much as the men, while attending to the [[underline]] red cheeked round eyed flat faced babies [[/underline]] and youngsters who [[underline]] crawl on deck unconcerned [[/underline]] on what is going on. Boats collide and rub each other
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and sometimes everything seems pandemonium and there is loud yelling and running back and forward and everything straightens itself out and goes on again. Some of these boats [[strikethrough]] under [[/strikethrough]] beyond the bridge house a whole family yet are not over 30 ft x 10 feet beam. Some have [[underline]] vaulted mat roof [[/underline]] shelters, other have tarred vaulted hooped cover. Others have nothing and the bedding is visible just [[strikethrough]] a fo [[/strikethrough]] one or 2 feet below the flat deck planking which is removable. [[underline]] Cooking [[/underline]] and boiling goes on merrily on [[underline]] little wood or charcoal fires. [[/underline]] Chats are exchanged from one boat to another and everything goes on busily and good-