DK - China Through Time

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A mounted guard of honor parades along the shore in full battle regalia.

It is exhausting work for the teams of boat trackers on the shore, who have to pull the vessels by rope.

All along the route, local people make offerings of food to please the emperor.

Pride of the fleet, the battleship’s catapults can launch rocks at enemy ships.

Battleship

Guard boat

Boat trackers

Guard of honor

Guard boats powered by oarsmen escort the emperor’s barge.

Viewing

ship

Local

dignitaries’

tent

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