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TRACKERS ON' THE YANGTZE TAKING THEIR NOONDAY MEAL 



The river boats are hauled through the gorges of the Yangtze by these trackers, who tug at 

 the shore end of a bamboo hawser sometimes half a mile in length. 



Photographs from Jos 

 A DIFFICULT STRETCH OF TOW-PATH ALONG THE YANGTZE 

 "Gripping fast to the rocks, where a slip costs a limb or a life." 



