A Yankee on the Yangtze - being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma (1904) (14762038956)

Identifier: yankeeonyangtzeb00geil (find matches)
Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925
Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China)
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



Text Appearing Before Image:
recruits from theGreat Chowtung Plateau to join the forces of theterrible Viceroy Tsen, the father of the present Viceroyof Szechuen, who has settled the Boxer troubles there.After the war was over, the mother, who was a widow,anxiously looked for her sons return, as he was her onlysupport. One day the sad news came that she wouldnever see her boy again, as he had died in that fright-fully malarious country. The poor woman gave her-self up to uncontrollable grief, and literally cried hereyes out. Give sorrow words : the grief that does not speakWhispers the oerfraught heart and bids it break.- The inhabitants of this district seem to be quietand well-behaved. Indeed, the people of Tongchuanare said to be so easily governed that it can be donelying down. This the Mandarins literally do, foropium is usually smoked in that position. In the I Li River the natives had devised a curiousfish trap with stones placed in the shape of a horse-shoe.The opening was down stream, made shallow at the
Text Appearing After Image:
■ *t i