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TOILING STRAINING COOLIES DRAW THE JUNK OVER THE RAPIDS
| Nothing could better exemplify the strenuous workaday life of the Chinese than the above photograph of the long lines of men putting every ounce of energy into their task. Many of the rapids on the Yang-tse river are very strong, and the business of pulling a boat over them is no slight one. With leather straps fastened over their right shoulders the workers are hardly taxed to accomplish it |
IMPRISONED ANNAMESE PIG CROSSING A FLOODED RIVER TO MARKET
| Being the marketing class of the nation, the women of Annam avoid the usual difficulties with a porker. They shut him in a tight, long, bamboo basket, in which he can be carried over river ford, or through forest fields, without chance of escape |