Several years ago Mr. 1. A. Donnel published an. interesting ite Books with woodeute and descriptions of the many different types of Chin-junk. "The most curious is the tone Used, T think. on the Min River, swith a high towisied stern to. ena the steersman to have better com. mand in descending. Every Sunk cers to have been designed. with a Special view to work Intended Yor it trid a strong tincture of local charac The latest addition to "the Maze feet" given last June when he came Home, is a superb North China junk. some ft. long, in beautifully varnish ed yellow wood. She has no keel, a fairly sharp prow, and. from the stern, which is not particularly high, Projects a sort of long bask-wooden et, in which gear of various sorts would be carried. One curious fea ture is thal, of the five masts, the foremost and the two after masts are) set to one side, it is believed in order: to make more room for cargo. She also carries topsails. though person ally I cannot remember seeing them) Set in any northward voyage I made.
Nearby is a memories of the Whangpoo—painted, black but with much gay scroll work in red and gold. These are too fami-to your readers to need descrip ton, but one notices how much more} melon shaped they are in the curve! from bow to stern than North China) junks. 1 In the same case isa Swatow fishing boat, with matting sails. There are of used to be a fleet of 2,000 of)
eri, the type has not varied for at least 500 years and they are fine, sea boats,
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