"Helping a raft on the Tong river to cross over stones on a very shallow section -- every body 'out.'" Several people are out of the raft, working to move it along the stones in a shallow portion of the river.
"Why the upper Yangtsi River (west of I-pin) is called 'golden sands.' The Chinese wash them for gold." A man is pouring sand and water through a sifter, looking for gold.
Act 4 Good Samaritan parable in Chinese setting -- the socially excluded Manza (like Samaritans among the Jews) takes injured Chinese merchant to an inn and pays for his care. The injured man is seated on a pony, supported by a man wrapped in a blank...
Act 3 Good Samaritan parable in Chinese setting. A despised Manza, with whom Chinese have no dealings, an aborigines tribesman takes pity on the Chinese traveler and helps him, binding up his wounds, setting him on his sturdy steed. .
Act 2 Good Samaritan parable in Chinese setting. Buddhist priest first passes by and then a Taoist priest (holding rose) next. The priests are passing by a "wounded" man on the ground.
Act 1 Good Samaritan in Chinese setting, posed by school boys etc. Three boys surround a fourth on his knees. They have items raised to mime hitting the boy kneeling.
"Sugar cane grinding mill, water buffalos turning the mills." A man is loading sugar cane into a mill which is powered by two water buffalo. There is a person standing behind the man.
"Lo-lo chieftains held as hostages by the Chinese at Pin San or Golden Sands River, Szechwan Province, West China." [now Sichuan] Six men standing front of a building, each wearing a cape-like garment.