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contrivances. [[underline]] Bamboo is used everywhere [[/underline]] and for every purpose. Masts and guards on their boats are made of it. [[strikethrough]] If they use [[/strikethrough]] They use also [[underline]] square sprit-sails  with a bamboo mast and a bamboo sprit [[/underline]] and the clew and leach had a bridled sheet so as to keep sail flat; [[underline]] when wind blows hard the bamboo mast curves until it seems it would snap. [[/underline]] It has no stays nor shrouds and simply bends and spills the wind out of the sails.
What a [[underline]] contrast is the "Bund" [[/underline]] along the water, with its well paved, smooth streets, electric trams, motor cars and [[underline]] motor [[/underline]] busses, fine opulent substantial buildings, banks
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business office-buildings and modern stores. If it were not for the junks in the river and the hustling jostling crowds of Chinese of every description, one would think oneself in a busy prosperous well built European Business City. The is a [[underline]] Rowing Club [[/underline]] on the shore of the muddy creek near the hotel, and near its shore a succession of motor cruising boats, houseboats, some with motors others with sails. They replace here the [[underline]] Dahabeeah [[/underline]] of the Nile. Some look like [[strikethrough]] our mot [[/strikethrough]] somewhat like our motor house boats.
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[[strikethrough]] Dahubeeah Dao [[/strikethrough]]Dahabeeah [[/vertical annotation]]
The crew is entirely Chinese a [[underline]] hard working, scrubbing lot, [[/underline]] some in pig-tails, others without. Blue Chinese overalls ^[[overalls]] and slippers and any kind

Transcription Notes:
A dahabeah, also spelled dahabeeyah, dahabiah, dahabiya, dahabiyah and dhahabiyya, as well as dahabiyeh and dahabieh, is a passenger boat used on the River Nile in Egypt.