Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Dance to the rhythm of the music.

It's something I really am quite nervous about, he admits, before adding, with relish: You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes.

Of most interest, since they are unique and seem to be unknown anywhere else in the world, were the foot-boats, as the few foreigners who have come to Shaohsing call them. The boatmen of this town, toward which we were headed, are famous, in so far as their fame has spread, for the way they row their long, slender, though by no means light, boats, tippy as canoes, with their legs.