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house boats or sandpans down a long canal cut thru villages & fields of mulberry bushes.  It required 2 hours to traverse this canal our motive power being a man onshore pulling a tow line fastened to the mast of our boat which was skulled at the stern by a Chinese woman, a cheerful creature & the mother of a family.
The boat landed us in a Chinese village where dense crowds of Chinese jammed the street.  We plowed our way thru these for a miles walk to the waterfront on the Hangchow River from which the bore was visible.  There were great herds of Chinese people journeying