. A'Chu and other stories. f Shanghai, at the wide mouth of the YangtseRiver, may be seen ships of many sizes, floating theflags of all civilized nations. See them coming-—launches, lighters, and tugs! They are heavily loadedand steam about busily. Slow-going junks and othernative craft, also, bring out from the citys storehousestheir share of tea, cotton, raw silk, vegetable oils, goatpelts, and other native products. These are loadedinto ships to be carried round the world. Besides these,many manufactured articles, both of practical use andof luxury, are sent abroad. The city lies on the Hwa
. A'Chu and other stories. f Shanghai, at the wide mouth of the YangtseRiver, may be seen ships of many sizes, floating theflags of all civilized nations. See them coming-—launches, lighters, and tugs! They are heavily loadedand steam about busily. Slow-going junks and othernative craft, also, bring out from the citys storehousestheir share of tea, cotton, raw silk, vegetable oils, goatpelts, and other native products. These are loadedinto ships to be carried round the world. Besides these,many manufactured articles, both of practical use andof luxury, are sent abroad. The city lies on the Hwang-poo River, near the sea-coast, and not far from the mouth of the Yangtse river (the Yangtse) affords the natural means of 52 AChu and Other Stories transportation to the sea for all exports of the vastfertile valley drained by its branches. When Chinashall have been supplied with railroads so that herproducts can be more easily sent to market, the alreadylarge commerce of Shanghai will be greatly Photo, u. u., N. Y. queens koad, shanghai This Shanghai blong all-same New Yawk, boasteda merchant on board the tender which carried us fromthe vessel lying at anchor in the harbor to the pas-senger wharf in the city. She do all-same big pidgin[big business]. She blong vely lawg [very large] city. This merchant had done business in New York anumber of years. In fact, he had learned his English By Steamship and Rail 53 there, but to the very end of his days a Cantonesenever can learn to twist his tongue around our either drops it altogether or puts the sound of 1in its place. FROM SHANGHAI TO HANKOW At Shanghai we changed to a smaller steamer, androde 600 miles up the Yangtse Kiang ( Son of the
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