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I obtained a mass of pamphlets from the [[underline]] Holland Line [[/underline]] which will [[underline]] help me for Java etc. Men and women [[/underline]] used for [[strikethrough]] the most [[/strikethrough]] carrying [[underline]] everything from a piano to a few bundles [[/underline]] of kindling wood. In every instance the carrying is done by means of a bamboo pole slung over the shoulder. A heavy stone for instance or a stone slab, 4 pair of men with bamboo poles carried by each pair and a rope slung below is the carrying method. The elasticity of the bamboo pole [[strikethrough]] mater [[/strikethrough]] compels them to [[underline]] walk short tripping steps [[/underline]] as if they were dancing. Men and women carry big peaked round straw hats, in [[underline]] woven straw or bamboo [[/underline]]
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others have only a big straw rim with a piece of black muslin hanging around the rim, as a kind of sun protecting curtain. while the top of their hairy head protrudes thru the center hole of the hat. 
[[left margin]] Cheap Labor [[/left margin]]
[[underline]] Labor must be very cheap and abundant [[/underline]] here: These [[strikethrough]] sp [[/strikethrough]] peak hatted women trip along with two small baskets of porphyry stone, [[strikethrough]] whi [[/strikethrough]] balanced on a bamboo pole. The stone is broken by hand and carried forth and back about 500 feet, sometimes half a mile. [[underline]] instead of carting. Carts are pulled by men [[/underline]] sometimes 4 pushing 6 or 8 pulling on ropes. Yet men and women [[underline]] all seem cheerful [[/underline]] and contented [[underline]] and well fed. Ricksaws [[/underline]] are in much better condition than in Sanghai, and provided with shiny brass ornaments; their