Excerpt from The Fisheries of ChinaFishing-boat (pp. 20 and 45 of Catalogue) is another device, which is found also in India and Siberia. There are models, in the Chinese collection, of the fishing-boats of Swatow, Ningpo, South Formosa, and Ichang. In spite of their apparent clumsiness they turn as on a pivot and promptly answer the helm. They are good sea boats, and are built in watertight compartments, or rather in com partments intended to be watertight. The wonder is that, in the ages of the Ark and the Argo, the Chinese should have possessed such practical and efficient vessels for it is evident, from Old books and drawings, that this was the type of boat then in use.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.