Image: A Yankee on the Yangtze - being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma (1904) (14781879311)

Description: 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: f-formed coal. Various uten-sils used by man are frequently found embedded inthe coal, which seems to prove that the formation wasarrested. In the examinations I have made of someof this coal, I have found that the knots of the treehad not changed, only the branches and the trunkhaving become coal. Other features of this greatplateau, which our aneroid registered as six thousandtwo hundred feet above the tide, are the remains ofmound dwellings. The plain is dotted with them.Burnt bricks found in them contain certain sym-metrical figures. The natives say that, in those earlydays, wild beasts were so rampant and dangerousthat people were compelled to build underground,leaving only a small entrance. Even now wolvesexist in large numbers, and often devour children,and sometimes attack men. Leopards and tigersrange at will through the country. Chowtung is the important place for trade with therich Province of Szechuen. Cloth and salt are theprincipal imports, and medicines, the wax insect, Text Appearing After Image: y. u r* z - i:Z w - hC f- 5; - — xZ X < — lvii Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze - being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma (1904) (14781879311)
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