. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. There is no difficulty in the world that cannot be overcome by theman who hustles.—Current Proverb. CHAPTER I. TO THE YELLOW FROM THE BLUE—SHANGHAI— WOMEN IN CHINA — SUPERSTITIONS — OPIUM — CHINESE HE Yangtze River colours the Pacific I Ocean for a distance of thirty miles from the China coast. The amountof earth carried down this mightystream and deposited on the slopingsea-floor is incalculable. As a land-maker this Chinese Mississippi\I ^ii cannot be excelled. It has bro
. A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma. There is no difficulty in the world that cannot be overcome by theman who hustles.—Current Proverb. CHAPTER I. TO THE YELLOW FROM THE BLUE—SHANGHAI— WOMEN IN CHINA — SUPERSTITIONS — OPIUM — CHINESE HE Yangtze River colours the Pacific I Ocean for a distance of thirty miles from the China coast. The amountof earth carried down this mightystream and deposited on the slopingsea-floor is incalculable. As a land-maker this Chinese Mississippi\I ^ii cannot be excelled. It has brought^ ^ down a considerable portion of the carrier Province of Kiangsu from the west, and gradually dropped it piecemealas mud. Large tracts of land on which many nativesnow contentedly live and cultivate their fields ofrice, cotton and wheat, were known to their fore-fathers as The Sea. To-day the river is stillengaged in the manufacture of territory, robbing theWest to enrich the East, and roiling the brine of theoft-times unpacific deep. The traveller to China dis-covers the saffron and chocolate long before he sightsthe low-lying coast. Sometimes it is a plunge in 2 TO THE YEIXOW FROM THE BLUE medias res when the sea is calm and the blue and yellowrefuse to mix ; then the ship glides over a distinct linefr
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