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CHINESE FISHERMAN AND HIS CORMORANTS.
(Copyright. 1902. by Frank O. Carpenter.) yond the yellow I can see the white caps on
AININO. Cheklang, Jan. 23. (Bpe- the Pacific, the realm of old Neptune, but
clal Correspondence of The Bee.) at yet there la no sign of hit invasion of
I have teen the greatest won- the land.
der of China. I might almctt lay I climb to the top of the wall, Bret having'
the greatest wonder of the world, my guide draw my camera up with a ttrlng.
It it the Oght between the watera of the and alt down and wait for the coming In
ocean and those of the land which takes vaalon. I am on a wide dyke shaded by
place here at every tide, when the mighty long lines of willows, with the Hangchow
Pacific, rearing ttt snow white head to a bay and the ocean in front of me and be
helght of many feet, comet galloping up the hind and below me, a mighty garden spotted
Bay of Hangchow in a vain attempt to con- with clumps of green trees and covered
quer the Tttngtang river, which there meets with a crazy quilt of luxuriant crops. There
It and is lost In its waters. are patches of pink peach orchards Just
I saw the struggle standing on lis sea bursting forth Into bloom, gray thickets of
wall which the Chinese have here built to mulberry trees and clumps of feathery
keep back the ocean. This wall is as high bamboos, out of which peep the thatchej
as a three-story bouse. It is built of gran- roofs of farm bouses. There are people
lte, the stones in places being Bound to- wearing blue gowns and gray hats at work
gather with iron, and It runs from here all in the fields, laxy buffaloes dragging the
the way along the coast to the mouth of plows through the furrowt, and In the wil
the Tangate Klang. It It thirty feet high low above me I hear the tinging of birds,
and more than one hundred mllea long, and it It an Ideal country acene, at peaceful
It la only one of the mighty creationa of the and quiet at that of any part of the world,
Chinese In their struggle with nature. and I almoat dose oft at I look.
China Versus HollaaA. Battle of the Waters.
We make much ot the light of Holland But what la that tound In the distance?
with the waves. 'The fight of the Chinese It makes me think of a railroad train at
Is far more wonderful. Tou could drop great speed, but far off. It slowly deepens
Holland amongst the vast regions ot the and I look out to sea. It la the mighty
lower Tangtse valley and you would have Pacific gathering Itself together for the
to hunt to find it. This whole country is a f reat bore at Hangchow. with my glass I
system ot dykes and canals. 1 traveled up can see a faint line of white at the toot of
the YangUe river for 1,000 mllea and tound blue Islands about ten miles away. It Is
enormous embankments - everywhere along now but a streak of sliver cutting the sea.
Its course. I walked on the banks of water- As I watch It It broadens and lengthens,
ways forty feet above the lands, the tops ot The tound Increases. See! ..There Is a low
such embankments forming the roads and wall of foam way out there In the water,
paths of the country. The great silk dls- There are great boats behind It whic& are
trlct about Halnlng Is ot a similar nature, floating In on the tide, and ships InT front
Every farm lies below the level or the canal,, which It must swallow up at it cornel- on
and everywhere the people are dredging out ward. Now It is nearer ana higher. With
the waterways and building up walls. The the naked eye I can see it throwing IU foam
canals are crossed by hundreds ot bridges, into the air. The wall seems to be rolling
some of enormous site and of great beauty, over and over, while the bay at my feet is
and all representing a vast amount ot ts still as a mill pond. Now the flood has
money and work. caught the ships. They ride with It They
Take, for Instance, this huge wall of tway this way and that, apparently on
Halnlng on which I am atandlng. At Ita their beam enda. Now they are lost and a
foot are two terraces about twenty feet little later on I see them rising and tailing
wide, held back by piles filled in with with the swell behind It.
stones. Above these terraces the wall rites Now the wall ot water la extending far
straight up about fifteen feet. It Is regu- out In the bay. It Is dashing Itself against
larly built, being made of blocks of stone the embankment some mllea further up and
from a foot to eighteen Inches thick, one It Is rolling, seething, foaming, roaring to
piled upon another as In building a house, ward me. Thlt wall Is greater than that
Upon the terraces, which are high out of whjch engulfed Pharaoh's army. It makes
the water, Is a long line of great Junks me think ot Niagara and the thunder of Its
filled with cargo for Halnlng. They have oncoming current la almost at great. It
come In when the tide was high, and by lta cornea closer and closer, until at last It
recession have been laid upon this great dashes almost to my feet and goea roaring
shelf. I have erawled down upon the ter- onward. It haa caught the great Junk
racea and I sit below the ships as I write on the terrace, swayed their masts to an
these notes. They are at least fifteen feet tro, and, passing, haa left them floating, for
back from the water, and their tall maata the bay la now filled and the terraces hid
tower high above the top of the wall. They den. How the water seethes and bolls!
are enormoua vessels which came here by There are a myriad whirlpools In the bay.
tea from other ports. Their mighty sails The ships are pulling at the great bamboo
are flapping In the breexe, and the great cables with which they are tied to the
fish-like eyes, each as big around aa a din- shore, and the whole for a moment It like
ner plate, look down upon me as I work the rapids below Niagara falls.
The ships are anchored to the wall by A moment later and the contest Is over,
cablea of twisted bamboo as big around as The Pacific haa crowded the river far back,
your arm, and beyond and back of them I It haa filled the bay and the tide It felt far
can tee the pagodas and other buildings ot Into the Interior. The dykes and the
Halnlng, with the blue mountains rising be walls, however, have protected the (arms
floodgates and locks leading Into the Grand
canal, and In some places these are man
aged by soldiers. It Is said a river was
once conducted Into It at a place above the
Tangtse Klang and that It took 800,000 men
seven months to turn the waters of that
stream. A great part of the Grand canal Is
in bad repair, but south of the YangUe It la
a mighty trade route, filled with all kinds
of vessels.
Laad of Mass- Brldsea.
The labor upon the canal has been enor
mous and a vast amount of work is being
done upon it today. At every few miles stone
bridges have been built across it an ny
of these bridges have wide stone arches
high enough for the boats tc pass through.
From the boat these arches are exceedingly
picturesque. They form a frame for the
long waterway covered with boats ot all
klnda. I counted thirty bridges In sight at
one time and this not including the little
stone bridges which cross the side canals
at every few hundred feet.
The bankt of all the canala have foot
paths, worn smooth by the tread of thou
sands of bare feet. Many of the boats are
hauled along by trekers, men, women and
children, who are narneseed up like horses
and who pull the boats onward by ropes at
tached to the masts. The women work as
nard as the meu, a thrifty boatman having
several wives, each extra wife being an
extra slave to the husband.
All the canals are filled with fish and
there are fishermen everywhere. There
are fish traps built at Intervals across the
waterway, through which your boat goea
with a scraping, grating sound. There are
wicker fences, so fixed Into the bed of the
canal that they will bend down when the
boat presses against them. They are meant
to stop the fish from coming down or up
stream and to turn them Into the sinuous
pens ot bamboo at the sides, where once
In they cannot get out. Such pens are fre
quently near great stone brldgee.
There are also fishermen using hooks
and lines and fishing partlea with nett and
also many men fishing -wi ...- .-?-...
The cc fberman -i.o aiong in
a cano , upon the aides of which alt from
twenty to thirty birds, which look much
like ducks. They are on the rim of the
boat, fastened there by strings tied to
their legs. At a word from their master
they will dive down for fish and bring them
up In their mouths. Each cormorant has
a ring about ita neck which prevents It
from swallowing the fish It catches. The
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WALL AND SHIPS AT HAINUNQ THE WALL IS ONE HUNDRED MILES LONG
AND KEEPS BACK THE SEA.
fisherman alts In the stern ot the boat and
paddles It along.
Scenes ia Soockow.
One of the most Important cities on ths
Grand canal Is Soochow. It Is bigger than
St. Louis and was founded about 600 B. C.
It la the capital of Kinagau province and
la in the heart of a district as thickly pop
ulated perhaps aa any part of China. It
Is a very rich city and a great manufac
turing center. It makes silks, linens, cot
tons and all sorts of things of Iron, Ivory
and glass. In the new China It will be one
of the great cities of the empire and one
of the chief railroad centers. Railroads
have already been surveyed to connect it
with Shanghai and before many years it
will be known all over the world. It Is
only five years now since It was opened to
foreign trade This was at the close of
the Chinese-Japanese war. At present
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hind them.
To Keen Ola Neptaao Back.
Stand beside me and let your eye follow
the wall. Notice how it winds along with
ths stnuoua curves of a snake, the atonet
and the people are working In the fields
Just as peacefully as before the great
"White Terror" came galloping In.
Oa the Graad Caaal.
I have been traveling tor some days upon
aa closely laid aa though they were dove- the Grand canal, going off now and then
tailed. Those curves lessen the force of Into the smaller canals which cover this
the mighty bore and aid in keeping the part of China like a net. The Grand canal
ccean out of the land. la a wonderful waterway. It Is longer than
Notice that great fasclns or fortification from New York to Cleveland and !t aaaea
of rushes and twigs which extends tar out through a region which contains more pec-
from the wall In the shape ot a bow. It Is pie than the whole United States. I taw It
twenty feet high and sixty teet In diameter first at Tier Tsln, which city It taps on lta
and It made ot ttlckt filled In with mud, way noria to Pekln. I have traveled on It
the endt of the ttlckt facing outward. That near Pek'n and also seen It at Chlnklang,
wall Is to protect these ships from ths dally where It iroeses the Yangtse, and am now
inroad of the Pacific which might otherwise , near Us lower end, where It terminates at
dash them to pieces against the stones. the great city of Hangchow.
Now look down at the bay. We are ap- Traveling upon it you pass walled towns
proachlog low tide and the water Is still at every few hours and now and then come
flowing out The goddess ot ths Talngtang to walled clUes so large that you are half
Is supreme. The bay Is filled with the silt a day In getting through them. For bun-
brought down by it from the mountains, dreds of miles there are no locks and north
It It slimy and muddy, a great eheet of of the YangUe the water la carried over
bright yellow ten miles In width bordered the country on great stone embankments,
at each end with navy blue mountains. The twenty or more feet high, the stream
sky Is bright blue and filled with waves of within the embankments twlng several hun-
fleecy clouds just above me. Far out be- dred feet wlda, The amallar canala have
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