"One of the countless ways of fishing used in China. The net is stretched over ropes hung from bamboos. It is raised and lowered by levers. The fish are dipped out of the net by means of a basket at the end of a long pole. We say dozens of these nets along the Salt Canal on our trip. Oct. 1910 Lorenzo and Ruth Bennett Morgan were American medical missionaries in the Jiangsu and Anhui provinces of China, serving under the Presbyterian and Methodist mission boards from 1905 to 1946.
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