A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . IRRIGATING RICE-FIELDS J. CHAPTER III LEARNING THE LANGUAGE Two forms and many dialects — Musical tones —Reducing a dialect towriting—Classical studies— Pidgin-English NINGPO, like the other seaports, is not on the sea, buttwelve miles inland, at the junction of two streams whichform the river Yung; a smaller town, according to Chinesefashion, being situated at the rivers mouth. The name doesnot signify, as generally stated, peaceful wave, but the citythat gives peace to the waves ; the place being a fortress des-tined to hold sea-robbers in chec
A cycle of Cathay, or, China, south and north . IRRIGATING RICE-FIELDS J. CHAPTER III LEARNING THE LANGUAGE Two forms and many dialects — Musical tones —Reducing a dialect towriting—Classical studies— Pidgin-English NINGPO, like the other seaports, is not on the sea, buttwelve miles inland, at the junction of two streams whichform the river Yung; a smaller town, according to Chinesefashion, being situated at the rivers mouth. The name doesnot signify, as generally stated, peaceful wave, but the citythat gives peace to the waves ; the place being a fortress des-tined to hold sea-robbers in check. The approach to the city is imposing. At the mouth of theriver a rocky island, surmounted by a fortified monastery andgirt with batteries, bars the entrance. On the northern sidestretches the crenelated wall of Chinhai (the Defense of theSea), a district city subordinate to the prefecture of the other side, a range of hills, green with groves of fir,forms the boundary of a fertile plain, intersected by innumer-able canals, which serve the double pu
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