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very active.  Here I saw for the first time children with floats attached to their backs.  This custom I have heard of as a general affair in China but I first met with it today.  Children of 3 to 5 years have a gord strapped to their back to float them if they tumble overboard.  Smaller children are tied inside the boat.  Both sexes are thus safeguarded, & not [[strikethrough]] only [[/strikethrough]] alone the boys as is often reported.  Near the mouth of the river are several large rounded ranite islands the rock here being evenly rounded with great smooth sides of gray granite & grass & bush covered summits and shore line.  Several of these