Identifier: greatriverstoryo00fitkrich (find matches)
Title: The great river ; the story of a voyage on the Yangtze Kiang
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Fitkin, Gretchen Mae
Subjects: Yangtze River (China) China -- Description and travel
Publisher: Shanghai, North-China daily news & herald, ltd, Kelly & Walsh, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ents our going further to the arched bridge. Under the waterfall small boys disport themselves unhampered by, to them, unknown standards of civilization. One of our oarsmen had his few clothes off preparatory to a cool swim before we were hardly stopped. Back we went, the downward current of Little River almost equalized by the backwash of the rising Yangtze, to the steps of Wanhsien. Here we entereda strange land. Up endless steps, round corner after corner, every flight is another street, lined with restau-rants and shops and beggars. Finally, at the end of a street, we entered a temple. Here is the home of one of the eight foreigners of the port. The courtyard in the centre is bare and denuded of its altar. On one side is the living room with books and magazines, easy chairs, and a victrola. On the walls hang the fascinating bamboo screens painted with Chinese sketches which come from the country at the back of Wanhsien and which are very difficult to get. On the other side of the courtyard is the
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