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They tell me that altho' so many [[underline]] Chinese live their whole [[\underline]] life on their boats [[underline]] very few if any can swim. [[\underline]] Nor if any one [[underline]] fall over-board [[\underline]] do they try to save him [[underline]] because they believe the spirits of the deep [[strikethrough]] will [[/strikethrough]] may pull them down with the man. [[\underline]]  Furthermore if they have saved thus the life of a man, [[underline]] they are responsible for all what happens to him afterwards. [[\underline]] Another man, [[underline]] Van Anden of the Yacht Club [[\underline]] contradicts the statement and says chinese boatman swim like fish.
[[underline]] Boats. [[\underline]]  The iron pin which is ball ^[[ball]] headed = [[drawing of pin]] and [[underline]] on which they swing their oars is [[\underline]] placed on the starboard [[underline]] stern [[\underline]] rail, so as to allow best [[underline]] use of right hand. [[\underline]] This rail is naturally high enough, because the [[underline]] stern [[\underline]] of all their boats, big or [[underline]] small is always decidedly [[\underline]]
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[[left margin drawing of upright bar with notches with annotation: rail]]
higher than the bow.
[[underline]] Forside oars [[\underline]] they plant [[underline]] wooden side pins with notches [[\underline]] in the rail.  The notches catch the ropes or [[underline]] rope [[strikethrough]] gr [[/strikethrough]] grommet which is slung over the oar. [[\underline]] and the various notches permit any adjustment of height while the rower is standing or sitting.
[[underline]] Sails. [[\underline]]  All of them, large or small, carry two [[underline]] single lazy jacks. [[\underline]] tied below lowest stay, this gathers sail and stays when lowering sail. The [[underline]] bamboo stays make the very heavy booms of our sails unnecessary. [[\underline]]
Kung Yee Tot Choi is the Chinese [[strikethrough]] saying [[/strikethrough]] greeting which means: May your cabbages grow big.
I should buy a book called "On a Chinese Screen, by Somerset Maugham, - gives amusing scetches of Chinese Life.