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fortable. In the part of China visited animals are Httle used for 

 transportation of any kind. Freight is carried on land by man- 

 power, one man with a pole supporting two weights, two men with 



Fig. 45. — A specimen of the traveler's tree, growing in the botanical garden 

 at Hue, the capital of Annam, French Indo-China. The plant is a native of 

 Madagascar. 



a pole supporting one weight, heavy loads on rude wheelbarrows, in 

 the cities heavy loads, as much as a ton, on carts pulled and pushed by 

 several men. 



One of the curious sights to one visiting China for the first time 

 is the enormous number of graves distributed at random over the 



