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Show PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN 3 My diminutive guide, clothed ina long, dark silk coat arrived at the French hostelry with no little dignity an pride; never before had an American journeyed so far fo the express purpose of visiting the paper villages of hi own native Indo-China. We were soon rigidly, but mor or less comfortably, seated in two jinrikishas on our wa to the old papermaking center of Tonkin. Silently w wheeled through winding dirt roadways between lowbuilt, bamboo and grass dwellings and open shops tha stretched along the muddy road for the several miles tha lie between Hanoiand the Vi/lagesdu Papier. Congeste masses of somber clothed natives trudged along in th same direction we were moving, while other throngs o heavily laden men and women pushed and milled thei way toward the markets in the native section of Hanoi Unlike the automobile, the lightweight, man-drawn ve hicles had no terror for these peasants and they crowde into the road and literally forced ourjinrikimen to com toa halt every few yards. An American gentleman livin in the Orient originally conceived the jinrikisha and thi form of conveyance lends itself well to the slow-movin life of the people; the majority of the native populatio of Indo-China no doubt look upon the automobile as Western contrivance to be dreaded and despised On previous sojourns in various countries of the Fa East I hadseen theancientand honourable papermakin craft carried on in many of its technical ramifications; was prepared to encounter poverty, disease, and distres |