By Our Fowchow Correspondent One of the industries of this city is the building of a peculiar type of boat, which I believe is not seen in any other part of China, and which every traveller to West China is anxious to sce. They are called in Chinese Wai Pi Ku feet from the stern, and at the same time bending it in towards the centre. They continue this process until they have reached a point slightly past the centre of the boat. This point is four or five feet higher than the back of an ordinary boat.
The other side of the boat is built very much like the ordinary boat. but with a little more curve inward and upward. and projects a little beyond the other side. The end of
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