TOWN BUILT ON WATER.
Palembang has been called the “Venice of Sumatra” because it is built on a system of rivers-and canals. A large share of the houses are constructed on piles driven into the river and on rafts that float about the town. Many of the stores are on these rafts, and it is interesting to see a native row up to a hat store, for example, to make a purchase of a new straw. A Palembang native buys about one hat a year, and it is said that he seldom patronises the same place twice, for the stores drift about so much that he does not worry himself to keep a record of them and their approximate location.
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New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1919, Page 45
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120TOWN BUILT ON WATER. New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1919, Page 45
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