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If the weight is heavy and two [[strikethrough]] are carryin [[/strikethrough]] or more are carrying they [[underline]] keep measure by a monotonous repetition of a few words, [[/underline]] sung out in [[strikethrough]] rythmt [[/strikethrough]] rythm. by one and repeated by the others, similar to [[underline]] the way Arabs do in Egypt. Joss temples, dirty, [[/underline]] unattended dusty.  Outside on the flagstones [[underline]] I saw tea leaves spread out amongst the dust and dirt; they were the tea leaves which had been used in tea houses [[/underline]] or restaurants, [[underline]] and left in the pots, [[/underline]] and which were [[underline]] redried and resold to poor people. Joss sticks [[/underline]] and fire works, and prayers printed on painted on paper and then burnt. and a gambling device of 2 wooden halves of a block bearing Chinese characters, being dropped on the ground telling whether good
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luck or bad luck or whether [[underline]] Joss [[/underline]] says "yes" or "no" to prayer  [[underline]] Gambler is religion.  Priests [[/underline]] or attendants, [[underline]] dirty ragged [[/underline]] looking and [[underline]] stupid appearance, [[/underline]] - squalid clothes.  [[underline]] Manure heaps, [[/underline]] in temples or near by. Temple of 500 Genii looks like a badly kept warehouse. Many of the Joss temples are now soldiers barracks. [[underline]] Soldiers as slovenly [[/underline]] as the [[underline]] temples themselves. [[/underline]] The cemetary with appartments where [[underline]] coffins [[/underline]] are [[underline]] kept for periods ranging from a few weeks to thirty or more years, [[/underline]] as long as rental is paid before they are finally buried. They are kept here amid [[underline]] Joss sticks etc. burned for them, rice, and wine and belongings [[/underline]] offered, or [[underline]] objects in paper representing articles or necessities [[/underline]]