The Big Game of Central and Western China; Being an Account of a Journey from Shanghai to London Overland Across the Gobi Desert
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II SHANGHAI Almost the first warning which one receives of the imminence of the Middle Kingdom lies in the discoloration of the bright and sparkling sea by the muddy waters of the Yangtse-kiang. They burst forth after their long journey from the highlands of Thibet with such volume that they are apparent eighty miles and more from the river's mouth. Shanghai itself is situated on the Woosung, an equally dirty river up which we journeyed in a launch. It was first settled about 304 B.c., and was raised to the dignity of a walled city 1554 A.d., having suffered severely at the hands of Japanese pirates. Captured in 1842 by Lieut.-Col. Montgomery, it is still a settlement, all landowners paying ground rent to the Chinese government. At the time of our arrival the whole place was in a ferment over the coronation of King George. The streets presented as strangely varied and cosmopolitan a spectacle as no other town in China could show. The Bund was crowded; all the big merchant houses being lavishly decorated with flags, bamboos, evergreens, and floral arches. Across the river, factory chimneys belched smoke into the grey skies, and energetic and laborious tugs tore the waters with yellow foam. TheKing George the fullest justice, ejaculated at no one in particular Hey! Break away. I see you. Below a group of Loyalists with jovial, brazen voices reiterated the statement that they were the Dollar Princesses, the wretchedest women on earth. A compact mob of Chinamen listened from the pavement and clapped delightedly at each encore. Far on the left the Astor House glowed through the night, and the lights of warships shone from the river. Sampans, silhouetted against their glow, glided noiselessly, phantomlike, and unsubstantial. A procession came whirling past. Light ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458863171
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458863174
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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