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A BRIDGE CONSTRUCTED EY THE SAVAGES 

 Of course, when the heavy rains come, this bridge will be carried down-stream. 



affixed to the tub, to separate the rice 

 from the blade. 



Picturesque, too, were the foot pumps, 

 worked by three and sometimes four 

 coolies, in pumping water from one field 

 to another. These were the invention of 

 a Spanish missionary and are used in 

 China as well. 



It would be interesting indeed to find 

 out how many of the inventions of which 

 we think as typically Oriental have origi- 

 nated in Western brains. I call to mind 

 the tonga, a vehicle used all over Central 



India, the invention of an American 

 missionary; and more especially the jin- 

 rikisha, the first one of which was con- 

 structed by an American missionary in 

 Japan for his lame wife, and which is 

 now used all over the East. 



EVERY BUFFALO HAS ITS FRIENDLY HERON 



The plowing is done by water buffa- 

 loes, which are brought down from their 

 mountain pastures, where they return to 

 graze when their work is finished. No 

 rural Formosan landscape is complete 



