Show FAULT IN CHINESE SAILORS they never learn to tie a knot properly ac according to a vet eran cran skipper 1 11 I dont know why it Is said the captain of the tramp steamer south Dro brooklyn oklyn 60 days out from but you cant tench teach any of those cht liege sailors to tie a real knot there much need aboard a steamer ete anier for the rope knowledge that used to be so eo much the part of a training hut but we do need splices and knots now and again just the same earne those chinese there who were signed orlas on as A H B B s can do anything needed in n the way of splices that would make an old tar far green with envy and fix up tip dead dea deyea eyes better than most moat of the men ive shipped but you cant get one of em am to tie a right knot teach em again and again they remember the lesson for halt half an hour next time theres a straight everyday emeryd ny knot to be tied the chinese hand band makes up the gattic old granny every child that tries to tie a knot makes it granny this kind of ft a knot Is made up tip by passing the ends around each other in ili the reverse direction making the ho ends stand out at right angles the ends should be wound around each other in tho the same direction when they come out of the knot they should tie lie alongside the ahe line on eathor stile side of the knot such guch a knot wont slip nut but a ChInat chinaman ilau cant learn for keeps not he the lascar find and malay and kanaka learn tile the 1 right ight knot easily enough in a adorni one of the things we have to guard against it if vie ve have chinese sal Eu torB lors |