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Barton and pine for lands where the elephant and jinrickisha flourish.
Lady Larkspur Meredith Nicholson 1906
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In Japan, at the present day, the popular method of conveyance, both in cities and in rural districts, is the two-wheeled vehicle, looking like a baby-carriage, known to foreigners as the jinrickisha, and to the natives as the kuruma.
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Figure 180 represents two Japanese porters and their usual load, which is much more difficult to transport than a jinrickisha carriage.
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Occasionally one sees a veteran jinrickisha man, and it is interesting to note how tenderly he is helped by his confreres.
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In the course of a journey in hot weather the jinrickisha man will gradually remove most of his raiment and stuff it into the carriage.
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In the course of a journey in hot weather the jinrickisha man will gradually remove most of his raiment and stuff it into the carriage.
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A pair of them will roll a jinrickisha along a country road at the rate of four miles an hour, and they will do this eight hours a day.
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Figure 180 represents two Japanese porters and their usual load, which is much more difficult to transport than a jinrickisha carriage.
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Occasionally one sees a veteran jinrickisha man, and it is interesting to note how tenderly he is helped by his confrères.
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A pair of them will roll a jinrickisha along a country road at the rate of four miles an hour, and they will do this eight hours a day.
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