Five months on the Yang-Tsze : with a narrative of the exploration of its upper waters and notices of the present rebellions in China / by Thomas W. Blakiston.

  • Blakiston, Thomas Wright, 1832-1891.
Date:
1862
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Five months on the Yang-Tsze : with a narrative of the exploration of its upper waters and notices of the present rebellions in China / by Thomas W. Blakiston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hire — Dragon-boat festival — Summer in Sz’chuan — Christians and Mussulmans — Letter in Latin — Reports of rebels — Departure from Chung-king — River’s course and range of the hills — Rope manufacture — Religious ceremony of the boatmen — The missionary cause in China — Change in the crops — St. George’s P.iss — Height of the water — Pass Wan — Cotton-growing — Unfavourable weather — Wrecked junks — Puug-siang and Wu-shan gorges — Temperature — More gorges — The scenery — Return to I-chang Page 304 CHAPTER XIX. RETURN FROM THE INTERIOR. I-chang as a port for foreign trade — Weather — Change of mandarins — En- gage a large junk — Leave I-chang — Sounding — Stormy weather — Pass Sha-sze — Night travelling — Rise of the water — Arrival at the outlet of the Tung-ting Lake — Other expeditions — Yo-chow and the rebels — Progress down the river — Native craft — Crossing the neck of the Great Bend — Wind-bound — Arrival at Hankow — Commerce — Height of the river — Instances of pilfering — Embark in the Hellespont — H. M. consulate at Kiu-kiang — The Poyang Lake — Navigation of the lower river — An-king still besieged — Arrival at Nanking — Walk on shore — Mr. Forrest — His Celestial Majesty’s customs — Visit of the Pluto to Nanking — Intense heat — End of our cruise 326 APPENDIX. I. Itinerary of Distances on the Upper Yang-tsze 353 II. Trade of Chung-king 355 III. Form of Passport 357 IV. Two Letters (in French) from the Roman Catholic missionaries .. 358 V. Geological specimens from the Yang-tsze Kiang 359 VI. List of Ferns collected by Lieut.-Colonel Sarel 361 VII. Geographical Positions 36S VIII. Meteorological Register 369 IX. Specimen page of Log-book 379 X. Ditto of Field-book (Woodcut) 380