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of hat or golf cap or bare-headed. They all carry on deck, several very straight bamboo poles most of them provided with a boat hook. Each has at least one long sweep with which they are able to skull the boat either from the stern, sometimes near the bow, thus providing auxiliary power without the need of an engine. All boats on the river, from the smallest to the largest are thus sculled by means of enormous sweeps, somewhat similarly to the way the Japanese handle their boats. The blade of the sweep or oar is rather broad and is [[underline]] lashed [[/underline]] to the handle similarly to the way adopted by the Japanese. This
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lashing brings about a [[underline]] curved handle, [[/underline]] and this curved handle naturally puts the blade of the oar in the desired position for its sculling effect when pulled laterally or vertically 
The [[strikethrough]] pan [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] Japanese [[/underline]] lash their oar as follows:
[[image: diagram of the oar and handle with annotation "one single lashing"]]
The Chinese in Shanghai have a 3 piece oar with [[underline]] 2 [[/underline]] lashings this producing a stronger curve thus producing a stronger bend.
[[image: diagram of oar with two lashings with sections annotated "a," "b," "c," and "rope"]]
At a a rope is fastened vertically on the rail so that in pulling this rope the oar naturally in lifting and side swinging exerts its sculling effect because at [[underline]] b. [[/underline]]