. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ereen route to sections of the country from which camerumours of disquiet and rebellion. But for the friend-ship of the two Yangtze Viceroys, they must have lefttheir bodies unburied on the soil of Western Chinaduring the Boxers orgy of blood. These tranquilmandarins should receive some recognition and expres-sion of appreciation from the governments to whichthese favoured citizens belong. When we had finished the Early Rice, which triedto finish us, the river was fully ten miles wide
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. ereen route to sections of the country from which camerumours of disquiet and rebellion. But for the friend-ship of the two Yangtze Viceroys, they must have lefttheir bodies unburied on the soil of Western Chinaduring the Boxers orgy of blood. These tranquilmandarins should receive some recognition and expres-sion of appreciation from the governments to whichthese favoured citizens belong. When we had finished the Early Rice, which triedto finish us, the river was fully ten miles wide. Risingamong the Pillars of Heaven, far off on the edges ofthat mystical and awe-inspiring country of Thibet,the civilising Yangtze winds around three thousandmiles through this land of the blue gown, then fallsinto the sea by the little village of Wusung. Myschool-friend, William Steckel, used to say to me thatrunning water was the most beautiful thing in nature,but running water meant to him some fair brookmeandering over curiously shaped pebbles, through alovely meadow near Doylestown, in the state of. - 2 _ _ - a
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