"House boat and pans" Down a long canal past thru villages + fields, small- berry bushes. It required 2 hours to traverse this Canal our motive power being a man on shore pulling along line fastened to the mast of our boat which was shodded at the stern by a Chinese woman, a cheerful creature + the mother of a family. The boat landed us in a Chinese village where dense crowds of Chinese jammed the streets. We plowed our way thru these for a mile walk to the waterfront on the Hangchow River, which the bore was visible. There were great herds of Chinese people journeying