Amateur photographers in China: sketches by the Rev. R O'Dowd Ross-Lewin. Messrs Tripod and Focus go ashore from a river steamer. They decide to photograph a party of natives sleeping in a field. The Chinamen, awaking and alarmed, take flight with yells of terror. The mob is kept at bay, dreading the levelled camera as a new kind of artillery. But they drive some of their water buffaloes in a fresh attack. Tripod and Focus take refuge up a tree. Ransomed by paying away all their dollars, they are permitted to embark in safety. China does not yet appreciate every art of civilisation!