"Deluxe travel in old China, by houseboat. A group of missionaries returning to Changteh [now Changde] in 1901, among them the Logans. The child is EML [Elsa Logan] the baby, VWL, aged only a few months, is inside in one of the several cabins. Note the owner or "laodah" on the poop, manning the tiller. Such a huge vessel was moved by fair wind or current. Failing these, sheer manpower had to be used: long sculls, or tracking by the crew, who hauled the boat by means of a rope attached to the mast - similar to towing by mulepower on the Erie Canal." Captions for this set of lantern slides from the papers of Oliver and Jennie Logan, American Presbyterian missionaries in Hunan, were provided by their daughter Elsa.
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