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Title: Afoot and afloat in Burma
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Williams, Alfred Henry, 1889-
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Publisher: Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., Peekskill, N.Y. (etc.) Review and Herald Publishing Association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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okeep from tumbling off. What would it beon a log drifting free on a swift stream? Floating Logs 8i So the work goes on, year in, year out,bringing the valuable logs from the forestsdown to the sawmills, where they are cut upinto useful sizes and shipped all over theworld. The mission dispensary here helps thepeople who work on the logs and rafts. Oneevening two men were out bringing in logs,and saw what they thought was another logdrifting down toward them. They paddledtheir canoe toward it. Suddenly they dis-covered that it was not a log at all, but ahuge tiger swimming the stream. The brute gave chase, and as they came toa shallow part of the river, the tiger gainedits footing and attacked the men in the canoe.With its forepaws it grabbed at the thigh ofone of them, and badly tore it with its claws.The man had the presence of mind to jam apaddle down its throat, and so frightened itoff. The injured man was brought to themission dispensary, where the workers atrtended to his wounds.
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© U. & U., N. Y. A Native Sawmill Zhip — zhup ! Zhip — zhup ! Up and down goes the big saw. THE WAY YOUR HOUSE WOULDBE BUILT A Native Sawmill — Strange Methods in Carpentry— Using Toes for. Fingers * Zhip — zhup! Zhip — zhup! Up anddown goes the big saw, slowly ripping upthe tree trunk, while the sawdust (or sawfood, as the Burmese call it) spurts out ateach stroke. The men have erected what is called asaw pit, and in it they are cutting up woodfor the house building. If there is a placewith a convenient hole in the ground already,then there will be something that looks likean actual pit; but if not, the sawyers willprobably get along with everything aboveground level. The pit saves them the laborof lifting the logs up on the sawing platform.Burmese are not very ambitious, so it does notseem to matter how much trouble is causedlater on. They consider that they have savedthemselves the work of digging a pit. 84 Afoot and Afloat Through Burma It takes two men to work th

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