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 X - THE UPPER YANGTZE
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
I was very impatient to be off on my western journey, but after the boat was engaged, the tracking ropes examined by experts at the customs, and my few stores—tea, curry powder, and rice—had been bought, I had four days of “hanging on.” The boatmen made various excuses for delay. One day it was that the lao-pan, or master, had not advanced them money wherewith to buy stores; another was a feast day; a third must be spent in paying debts or they would be detained; and on the fourth they said they must visit certain temples and make offerings for the success of the voyage! The weather was raw, grim, and sunless. I had had a fire day and night in my room at the customs, and a fireless, draughty boat was a shivery prospect, but things usually turn out far better than either prophecies or expectations, and this voyage was no exception.
I was fortunate in being able to take as far as Wan Hsien Mr. Owen Stevenson, of the China Inland Mission, who had had ten years' experience in Yunnan, accompanied by Mr. Hicks, a new arrival; and they engaged the boat for the next stage to Chungking, which gave Mr. S. some little hold on the lao-pan, who was a mean and shifty person, coerced into evil ways by a terrible wife, a virago, whose loud tongue was rarely silent, who had beaten her eldest boy to death a few months before, and of whom the remaining boy—a child of eight—lived in piteous terror, lest he should share the same fate.
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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. 104 - 113Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010