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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Sketch Map to elucidate recent exploration on the TIBETO-CHINESE FRONTIER
- ILLUSTRATIONS and MAPS to VOL. I
- Errata in Vol. I
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
- CHAPTER I ‘OVER THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY’
- CHAPTER II ‘CHINA'S STUPENDOUS MOUND’
- CHAPTER III ‘ATHWART THE FLATS AND ROUNDING GRAY’
- CHAPTER IV ‘A CYCLE OF CATHAY’
- CHAPTER V THE OCEAN RIVER
- CHAPTER VI THE GORGES OF THE GREAT RIVER
- CHAPTER VII CH'UNG-CH'ING TO CH'ÊNG-TU-FU
- CHAPTER VIII A LOOP-CAST TOWARDS THE NORTHERN ALPS
- CHAPTER IX A LOOP-CAST TOWARDS THE NORTHERN ALPS—continued
- Plate section
CHAPTER VII - CH'UNG-CH'ING TO CH'ÊNG-TU-FU
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Sketch Map to elucidate recent exploration on the TIBETO-CHINESE FRONTIER
- ILLUSTRATIONS and MAPS to VOL. I
- Errata in Vol. I
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
- CHAPTER I ‘OVER THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY’
- CHAPTER II ‘CHINA'S STUPENDOUS MOUND’
- CHAPTER III ‘ATHWART THE FLATS AND ROUNDING GRAY’
- CHAPTER IV ‘A CYCLE OF CATHAY’
- CHAPTER V THE OCEAN RIVER
- CHAPTER VI THE GORGES OF THE GREAT RIVER
- CHAPTER VII CH'UNG-CH'ING TO CH'ÊNG-TU-FU
- CHAPTER VIII A LOOP-CAST TOWARDS THE NORTHERN ALPS
- CHAPTER IX A LOOP-CAST TOWARDS THE NORTHERN ALPS—continued
- Plate section
Summary
April 8.—Early in the morning we reached the outskirts of the great city of Ch'ung-Ch'ing; and passing through a crowd of junks of all sizes, we hauled up to a position under the walls, where we very soon received a welcome batch of letters and papers from the agents of Messrs. Major and Smith. The Chinese merchants have an excellent postal system of their own: they arrange amongst themselves to send couriers or runners on foot at regular intervals, who travel very fast, and generally very securely. In this case the letters had been only fourteen days from Hankow, about six hundred miles by road. During the whole time I was in China I received every letter and newspaper sent me, except one letter, and that had been forwarded viâ Russia!
Soon afterwards Monsieur Provôt, one of the French missionaries, came to pay us a visit: a tall pleasant man, dressed in Chinese clothes, and with an artificial plait, for the missionaries in China invariably discard foreign clothes. He said that all sorts of conjectures had been rife about us amongst the Chinese. He asked Baber when he was going on to Yün-Nan; and turning to me said he hoped that I should like living here. When he saw that we did not exactly understand the remark, he explained that it was the general opinion that Baber had been appointed a consul in Yün-Nan, and that I was to be consul at Ch'ung-Ch'ing.
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- The River of Golden SandThe Narrative of a Journey through China and Eastern Tibet to Burmah, pp. 260 - 316Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1880