Travels in north and central China . comfortable little Shasi,a Butterfield and Swire boat, and next day, at noon,we turned up the creek leading to Yo-chau, at themouth of which is a Customs station. That day and the next, the 10th, were warm,bright, and pleasant, and about noon on the 17th,(Sunday) we reached Ichang. The country so farhad been level, but now we came to the gorge belowIchang, known as that of the Tigers Tooth. Asplendid natural arch spans a ravine close to theentrance. Bold cliffs fall plumb to the water andsharply serrated ridges stand back from it ; somedistance off, separat
Travels in north and central China . comfortable little Shasi,a Butterfield and Swire boat, and next day, at noon,we turned up the creek leading to Yo-chau, at themouth of which is a Customs station. That day and the next, the 10th, were warm,bright, and pleasant, and about noon on the 17th,(Sunday) we reached Ichang. The country so farhad been level, but now we came to the gorge belowIchang, known as that of the Tigers Tooth. Asplendid natural arch spans a ravine close to theentrance. Bold cliffs fall plumb to the water andsharply serrated ridges stand back from it ; somedistance off, separate from the mountain andcrowned by a monastery, rises a curious cleft rock-turret resembling that of a Norman castle. Lying along the river and backed by the mountainranges which mark the entrance to the great gorgesof the Upper Yangtsze, Ichang stands picturesquely TO THE YANGTSZE—1CHANG. 97 at the present limit of steam navigation, and aboveit river traffic is slow, costly and dangerous. Mr. Wong, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. HILLS BELOW ICHANG. agent, a Chinaman educated in the States, livingin a foreign house in foreign style and speakingEnglish well, at once undertook to charter a junk or
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