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Modern Harbor of Canton, where foreign commerce with China first began.
(a) Looking from Honam across the Canton River towards the city. Customs station prominent near center of river front as shown. The tall buildings are pawnshops. White Cloud Mountain appears to the north.
(b) In the rear of a departing river steamer bound for Hong Kong ninety miles away. Native sampans ('three-board') and ma lung tenas ('slipper'-boats) in great profusion and confusion. Note the water-carriers drawing the city's main water-supply. The only pure water obtainable, except rain water, is that brought in buckets from near the top of White Cloud Mountain. Deep artesian wells have not as yet been sunk. This in a city of two million people!
