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Show 1 PAPERMAKIN IN INDO-CHIN ‘This meager information concerning the ancient pape distri& of Tonkin aroused my curiosity and interest,an Iresolved to visit these small remote mills with the hop of seeing the makin of the paper and photographing th artisans at work My pilgrimage to the native paper distriéts of Tonki and Annam was to have its real beginningin Hongkong for it was from this busy cosmopolitan crossroads of th Pacific that 1 had planned to embark for Haiphong, th entrance port to Tonkin. The Penrith Castle arrived a Hongkong the morning ofa dark gloomy day, the latte part of February, 193 5, and it was my wish to set sail fo Haiphong without loss of time as Hongkong had neve heldany fascination for me. In consulting a time schedul posted at the pier I ascertained that a ship would leav Hongkong for the port of Haiphong, «irregularly o Saturdays." With my usual good fortun the irregularit proved most opportune as a small French mail ship wa tosail the eveningof the day T had arrived in Hongkong which was Tuesday The dilapidated coal-burning stcamship, Gouverneu Général Paul Doumer was anchored in the roadstead mile or more distant from Hongkong's crowded wate front, and after boarding the small vessel in rain and fo by means ofa lurching Chinese junk, T was cheered b finding the aged Eurasian captain most genial and kind the crew embraced a score of nondescript Cambodians Chinese, Tonkinese, and Anamese, all most solicitou Digital Image © 2005 Marrioft Library University of Utah, All rights reserved |
