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Updated: May 15, 2025
"He may be out of the lock, but we're not out of the wood," said Alb. He had slowed down, reversed the engine, and quietly passed into a water-lane between some huge barges, looking not a whit disconcerted by the curious gaze of the barge-folk who wondered at his bare feet and soaked overalls. "Why, what can he do?" I asked. "He'll have to wait an hour before the lock opens again."
This condition of things corresponds in some degree to that described by Captain Marryat in that fine old story "Jacob Faithful," in the early chapters of which we get diverting glimpses of life on board a Thames lighterman. But the river population of China is still more absolutely aquatic in manner of life than the Thames barge-folk.
Some are pulled by horses, and often men or women labour along the towing-path dragging these heavily laden vessels by a rope fastened to a short mast set up in the bows. This is hard work, but the barge-folk seem to think nothing of it. Whole families are born, live, and die on their barges.
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