Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I GEOGRAPHICAL AND INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II “THE MODEL SETTLEMENT”
- CHAPTER III HANGCHOW
- CHAPTER IV THE HANGCHOW MEDICAL MISSION HOSPITALS
- CHAPTER V SHANGHAI TO HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VI THE FOREIGNERS—HANKOW AND BRITISH TRADE
- CHAPTER VII CHINESE HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VIII HANKOW TO ICHANG
- CHAPTER IX ICHANG
- CHAPTER X THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XI RAPIDS OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XII RAPIDS AND TRACKERS
- CHAPTER XIII LIFE ON THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XIV THE YANGTZE AND KUEI FU
- CHAPTER XV NEW YEAR'S DAY AT KUEI-CHOW FU
- CHAPTER XVI KUEI FU TO WAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XVII CHINESE CHARITIES
- CHAPTER XVIII FROM WAN HSIEN TO SAN TSAN-PU
- CHAPTER XIX SZE CHUAN TRAVELLING
- CHAPTER XX SAN-TSAN-PU TO LIANG-SHAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXI LIANG-SHAN HSIEN TO HSIA-SHAN-PO
- CHAPTER XXII HSIA-SHAN-PO TO SIAO-KIAO
- CHAPTER XXIII SIAO-KIAO TO HSIEH-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXIV HSIEH-TIEN-TZE TO PAONING FU
- CHAPTER XXV PAONING FU AND SIN-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXVI SIN-TIEN-TZE TO TZE-TUNG HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVII TZE-TUNG HSIEN TO KUAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVIII KUAN HSIEN AND CHENGTU
- CHAPTER XXIX KUAN HSIEN TO SIN-WEN-PING
- CHAPTER XXX SIN-WEN-PING TO LI-FAN TING
- CHAPTER XXXI LI-FAN TING TO TSA-KU-LAO
- CHAPTER XXXII THE “BEYOND”
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE MAN-TZE, I-REN, OR SHAN-SHANG-REN
- CHAPTER XXXIV FROM SOMO TO CHENGTU FU
- CHAPTER XXXV DOWNWARD BOUND
- CHAPTER XXXVI LUCHOW TO CHUNG-KING FU
- CHAPTER XXXVII THE JOURNEY'S END
- CHAPTER XXXVIII THE OPIUM POPPY AND ITS USE
- CHAPTER XXXIX NOTES ON PROTESTANT MISSIONS IN CHINA
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- ITINERARY
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XII - RAPIDS AND TRACKERS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I GEOGRAPHICAL AND INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II “THE MODEL SETTLEMENT”
- CHAPTER III HANGCHOW
- CHAPTER IV THE HANGCHOW MEDICAL MISSION HOSPITALS
- CHAPTER V SHANGHAI TO HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VI THE FOREIGNERS—HANKOW AND BRITISH TRADE
- CHAPTER VII CHINESE HANKOW (HANKAU)
- CHAPTER VIII HANKOW TO ICHANG
- CHAPTER IX ICHANG
- CHAPTER X THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XI RAPIDS OF THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XII RAPIDS AND TRACKERS
- CHAPTER XIII LIFE ON THE UPPER YANGTZE
- CHAPTER XIV THE YANGTZE AND KUEI FU
- CHAPTER XV NEW YEAR'S DAY AT KUEI-CHOW FU
- CHAPTER XVI KUEI FU TO WAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XVII CHINESE CHARITIES
- CHAPTER XVIII FROM WAN HSIEN TO SAN TSAN-PU
- CHAPTER XIX SZE CHUAN TRAVELLING
- CHAPTER XX SAN-TSAN-PU TO LIANG-SHAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXI LIANG-SHAN HSIEN TO HSIA-SHAN-PO
- CHAPTER XXII HSIA-SHAN-PO TO SIAO-KIAO
- CHAPTER XXIII SIAO-KIAO TO HSIEH-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXIV HSIEH-TIEN-TZE TO PAONING FU
- CHAPTER XXV PAONING FU AND SIN-TIEN-TZE
- CHAPTER XXVI SIN-TIEN-TZE TO TZE-TUNG HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVII TZE-TUNG HSIEN TO KUAN HSIEN
- CHAPTER XXVIII KUAN HSIEN AND CHENGTU
- CHAPTER XXIX KUAN HSIEN TO SIN-WEN-PING
- CHAPTER XXX SIN-WEN-PING TO LI-FAN TING
- CHAPTER XXXI LI-FAN TING TO TSA-KU-LAO
- CHAPTER XXXII THE “BEYOND”
- CHAPTER XXXIII THE MAN-TZE, I-REN, OR SHAN-SHANG-REN
- CHAPTER XXXIV FROM SOMO TO CHENGTU FU
- CHAPTER XXXV DOWNWARD BOUND
- CHAPTER XXXVI LUCHOW TO CHUNG-KING FU
- CHAPTER XXXVII THE JOURNEY'S END
- CHAPTER XXXVIII THE OPIUM POPPY AND ITS USE
- CHAPTER XXXIX NOTES ON PROTESTANT MISSIONS IN CHINA
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- ITINERARY
- APPENDICES
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
A strong, fair wind took us swiftly and silently up the gorge of the “Military Code and the Precious Blade,” in which the water is said to be 1200 feet deep (?), and with some tracking up minor rapids, and some working round corners with poles armed with steel hooks which are inserted into the crevices of the rocks, we passed through the sublime Mitan gorge into a comparatively open reach abounding in vicious-looking reefs and rocks, among very rocky mountains, villages on heights, and superb temples on crags, and at sunset made fast below the picturesque and nobly situated town of Kueichow, the first walled city on the Upper Yangtze.
The Upper Yangtze is remarkable for the picturesque beauty of its cities at a distance, and their situations, almost invariably on irregular heights, backed by mountains, and with fine gardens and trees within their crenelated stone walls, which follow the contour of the site invariably, with one or more lofty pagodas denoting the approach, and with yamen and temple roofs dominating the mass of houses are very imposing.
One is only slowly convinced by experience that the interiors are not worth investigating. Dangerous reefs run out from below the walls of Kueichow, and as the river, if not an actual rapid, was at that time at least a chipa, it was not surprising not to find a single boat or junk there.
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- The Yangtze Valley and BeyondAn Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory, pp. 128 - 137Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1899