The great river ; the story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang . ot of Big Dragon Mountain, and which isconnected with the city of Anking by a clear, windingriver. It is over this that foreigners go in canoes forevening picnics and suppers in the spring-time. The port is protected on the north and west bj-ranges of hills, but the east and south are free andopen, with the river stretching out wide and muddy asfar as can be seen, with clear bodies of water along theedges that appear to be tributaries but are reallylakes. The straw-thatched huts and tiled-roofed,plastered houses of Anking are crowd
The great river ; the story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang . ot of Big Dragon Mountain, and which isconnected with the city of Anking by a clear, windingriver. It is over this that foreigners go in canoes forevening picnics and suppers in the spring-time. The port is protected on the north and west bj-ranges of hills, but the east and south are free andopen, with the river stretching out wide and muddy asfar as can be seen, with clear bodies of water along theedges that appear to be tributaries but are reallylakes. The straw-thatched huts and tiled-roofed,plastered houses of Anking are crowded on the verybank of the river much like any other j)ort of theYangtze, the solid pictm-e broken here and there bya church spire or the red roof of a mission building andthe cm-ved roofs of Chinese temples. The outlying country, cut with streams which arein turn fringed with willows, and blocked into rice-fields, bears witness to the fact that we are still inthe rice country, that cereal being the chief exportfrom the uncommercial port of Anking. We climbed.
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