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Show HE VOYAGE from New York to Hongkong b way of the Panama Canal and across the seemingl endless Pacific Ocean had been a wearisome but not a altogether unpleasant journey. More than forty-six day were required for the cumbrous Penrith Castle,a fiftee thousand ton freighter flying the British flag, to slowl push her course through the fourteen thousand miles o ocean sea; the hold of the vessel was laden heavily with cargo of scrap iron destined for the Japan war-machin in the heyday of building Onapreviousjourney to Kwangtung Province, Sout China,I had learned that a particularlocality of Tonkin Indo-Ghina had forhundreds of years been a papermak ing center where the trade had long been carried on b the Anamese, the secrets and complexities of the craf handed from each succeeding generation to the following, through countless decades of papermaking history Digtal image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts ressrved |
