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business here and venders of these wares offer them in their sampans in the same way as vegetables are peddled out. They are [[strikethrough]] for the Chinese a real [[/strikethrough]] [[underline]] considered by the Chinese one of the necessities of life. [[/underline]] The guide provided by Cooks Agency, is a talkative Chinese in long gray slit tabbard and European felt hat, whose English I have to guess at and who fires his talk incessantly. He steps in a ^[[bamboo]] Sedan [[underline]] Chair or Palankin, [[/underline]] I step in the one following him, but on account of [[underline]] my weight [[/underline]] he tells me [[underline]] I need 3 coolie bearers, [[/underline]] - all barefooted and stepping in rythm with the swing of the long teak poles, thru the crowded [[underline]] Bund, [[/underline]] the same squalid, hustling, carrying, pulling succession of dirty Chinese coolies, mostly all
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barefooted. [[underline]] Ragged looking [[/underline]] soldiers, ditto policemen in faded dark cotton ill fitting uniforms, [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] most in flimsy slippers. Buildings are in European style, reminding somewhat of the newer buildings one sees in such places as Naples or other Italian or French Cities and have several stories with galleries opening on street and arcades below. They all seem crowded. There are also some entirely new substantial concrete steel buildings of [[underline]] respectable size and very modern construction. [[/underline]] 4 or 5 stories high and look like big office or appartment buildings. Streets on the Bund around the [[strikethrough]] water [[/strikethrough]] shore are wide and asphalted or cemented [[underline]] but dusty and dirty. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] From [[/strikethrough]] On these open the very narrow crooked streets which make the town. Some of them barely 6 or 8 feet wide