Identifier: faceofchinatrav00kemp (find matches)
Title: The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Kemp, Emily Georgiana, 1860-
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Publisher: New York, Duffield
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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in a very short time, and is certainly notlacking in excitement; for the boats seem to fly pastus, and all hands on board are needed to keep the junkat all head foremost; while steering is a work de-manding the utmost coolness,strength, and intrepidity,for the river is full of hidden rocks. The change inthe height of the water adds immensely to the dangerand difficulty of navigation. For the journey down-stream the masts are taken down, and on a large junkfifteen or more men are kept rowing as if for dear life;and even then the junk often threatens to be carrieddown sideways. When there is a strong wind blowing it is wonderfulto see how the boats go up-stream, despite the current,while the men sit down with beaming faces for a fewminutes rest, or seize the opportunity to do a littlewashing. One merry fellow—the wag of the party—explained in pantomime that he wanted to see thesoap with which we wash our hands, and was delighted when we gave him a little bit with which to wash a 132
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ch. xiii On the Yangt%e piece of cotton that he wraps round his head. Theyuse very hot water but no soap for washing, and it isastonishing to see how clean they succeed in makingtheir things. The trackers next bit of work wasphilanthropic to a degree ! He carefully washedout his mouth, then filled it again with water andapplied it to a gathering on the sole of the foot ofanother man, and began to draw out the pus. I puta stop to it, however, and attended to the foot in amore Western manner. This was the beginning ofmy looking after the various sores of our party, andfrom this time on I rarely lacked patients. It soonbecame rather ludicrous, for any one who got ascratched finger seemed to think it required myattention, and I much regretted not having suppliedmyself with a dressers case and a few simple requi-sites. Directly the man had had his foot attended to,he had to go on shore to track, with nothing buta straw sandal to protect the foot from stones anddirt. The endurance of the me

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