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PLATE XXVII Coolies Carrying Burdens at Hongkong. Chinese Coolies Using the Bamboo Pole Are a Common Sight in Hongkong. They Carry Several Hundred Pounds, Moving at a Dog Trot |
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PLATE XXVIII The Spacious Foreign Bund at Hongkong, With the Row of Lofty Business Buildings. The Ferry Takes One to Kowloon, the Native City, Opposite Hongkong |
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PLATE XXIX Chinese Junks in Hongkong Harbor, These Junks, With Their Curious Sails of Matting and Bamboo Spars, Form One of the Features of Every Chinese Harbour or Sea View |
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PLATE XXX View of the Water-front at Canton. This General View of the Pearl River and the Canton Bund, or Water-front, Shows the Enormous Floating Population on the River |
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PLATE XXXI The New Chinese Bund at Canton. The Chinese Recently Completed This Bund. It Contrasts Strongly With the Ancient Walled City, a Stone's Throw in the Rear |
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PLATE XXXII A Confucian Festival at Singapore. This Shows the Elaborate Street Decorations to Commemorate the Festival of Confucius in the Chinese Quarter |
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PLATE XXXIII A Main Street in the Native Quarter of Singapore. The Shops Are Small and the Shopkeepers Live in the Rooms Above. The Flags Displayed Are Those of the New Chinese Republic |
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PLATE XXXIV The Y. M. C. A. Building at Singapore. This Fine Structure Has Many Counterparts in the Chief Oriental Cities, Where the Association is Doing a Great Work |
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PLATE XXXV The Great Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon. The Finest Buddhist Temple in all Indo-China, Containing Alleged Relics of Gautama. It is Gilded from Base to Summit and May be Seen Forty Miles at Sea |
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PLATE XXXVI Entrance to the Shwe Dagon Pagoda. On Each Side is an Enormous Leogryph, Built of Brick and Covered With Plaster. The Porch Has a Superbly Carved Roof |