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THE GORGES OF THE GREAT
YANGTSE..
BY STAN HARDING-KRAVI,
In summer, when Tibetan snove have melted, the great Yangtue is very full and yellow. As we approached its delta the screws of the liner seemed to turn more wearily, and looking out of the port-hole I saw that the sea was over. spread by the yellow river. Thon came the journey up an arm of the river; on either side hideous flats, with monstrous placards tulling the smooth-faced Chinese and others to use safety razors, etc. Then Shanghai; and after Shanghai we come again to the main stream. What a Yangtse it was in July, 1911: The coun- try was flooded for miles on either side. Thousands had perished; they said we should meet them coming down stream.
We steamed ten days up the lower Yangte to Ichang. The first two days we sometimes saw no shore at all.
Then a great expanse of yellow water bounded by the tops of the drowned bainboos; and flooded rice fields beyond, aud in the distance, hills. All the towns were fluxiod; chair coolies splashed along their streets knee deep in water. The heat was intense; mosquiters and all manter of other insects hovered over the river as if it wore a swamp...
As we neared Ichang the mountains came down to the river banks; strange, improbable mountains with the regular lines of their strata sloping upwards. towards Tibet,
Moured to the shore were hundreds of up-river junks, Those are built of Szechuen cypress, and stained with some varnish till they are the colour of quite anmixed gold. Their sterns are high and their bows low, and they are pro- pelled by huge rowlocks on either side, and steered by an enormous sweep, the trunk of a pine-tree projecting in front. Here and there one sees a small, strongly built bont about ten yards long and painted red. These are the Hongchuan or lifeboats of the Upper Yangtse, and their crews are the pick of the sturdy boutmen. It was in one of these that I went through the Gorges some weeks later.
The Gorges begin about five miles above Ichang. Quite suddenly you leave the great lakelike river and find yourself on a vast torrent of yellow water cushing down between rock walls. Up this torrent the junks must climb into Szechnen.
Even the toil of dragging our little junk up against the river is more cruelly hard than would be tolerated in Europe; and yet we skim lightly over the diff culties compared with the great junks, we leave behind.. To drag these up against the terrific current fifty, sixty, a hundred men swarm over the face of the cliff, or, in the worst places, climb along the path hown in the rock. The great ruts wore in the rock by the hawsers show the fierceness of the work.
To say that this work is un-European o Asiatic is not enough; it is the slave work of some old monumental civilisa- tion. Indeed, the towers look for all the world like an Egyptian bas-relief. In saemer most of these men are completely naked some sport & blue or black turban; some the African loin cloth; some wear the coolie's fall dress of blue cotton patched with every shade of blue from furquoise to purple; many wear nothing but their black hair wound round and round their heads. Among them inove the task-masters
bamboo with their
heave So they strain and rode. as long as the roll of the drums on the junks tells that all is well. Sometimes hours of straining barely succeed in moving the junk fifty yards. At other times the hawsers break and the junk slips hack to death on the rocks; or, after being whirled round and round in the grip-of-the-river, only the frantic efforts of the rowers bring her to safety; then the towers walk back, maybe a couple of miles, to take up their burden again. And the while they tow they chant a weird song in the distance it sounds like a sad perpetual cheering, or some times, at the worst places, like the crying of beaten men. The towing men's song is different from the rowers, but either is the most perfect expression of the river. The Gorges are loud with it till after sundown; till all junks great and small. are moored for the night in some back- water, sheltered from the full force of the current. But even at night I some times thought that I heard towers chant ing in the distance. I told myself that it must be the sound of the river, or of
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A succession of dim gold junks climbs up the river under the lee of the cliffs. They have lemon yellow banners and lan- teras with vermilion characters. These onks are carrying Tuan Fang's soldiers to Szechuen. And all the while we hear the singing of the great choir of towing- men and rowera.
At last I hear the distant roar of a
thanks to the courtesy of a passing traveller, who supplied me with another boat, stores, and clothes, that I was able to go on. I had gone ashore with the towers to sketch something when the rope broke and the bout was swept out into the great swirls in the middle of the river. She capsized and disappeared for a moment, but reappeared with the men clinging to the keel. With their muscles rapid. One slit eye opens. A groan; no like steel hansers they were able to hang answer from the others. "Ei yuh"; still on in spite of the man-eating river, and no answer. A couple of men spring for were rescued many miles below. My the oars. Another is just at the moment second crew were opium smokers, and of pipe-filling and cannot be disturbed. every night when the boat was secarely Another merely looks stolidly at the rest, moored and they had bathed themselves, who are now beginning to yell at him combed each other's long black hair and to do his share. He must finish his eaten rice, they would lie beside their poppy dream first. Besides, at present little lamps and taste rest before sleeping, he is made wise by opium, and knows That was the journey up-stream. At that nothing matters. Death surely does Kweifer we halted a day, then started not matter, and drowning is the gentlest back down the river. In two days we death of all, covered the distance it took those twelve days of inhuman toil on the way up.
Those are two days of strong contrast: hours of. undisturbed incomparable dreaming alternating with minutes of passionate struggle with the river. drift rapidly down in the middle of the river; the crossed oars point upwards; out of danger. the men lie in the bottom of the boat smoking and sleeping. They rouse them selves to bow to Kuan Yin, Geddess of Mercy, as we pass under her Banyan-sur- rounded temple at the entrance of the Fung Shan Gorge, where the river burls in through the mountains. Then they relapse into their state of torpor, Pre Taiwanti, or strong swimmers, who, if sently I hear a sound like a tiger cat's chance to get on ahead. There are places
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the thousands and thousands of insects hovering over it; anything save the towers song, for no junk could travel by night and not porish at once. Yet once it was unmistakable. I got up. stepped over sleeping boatmen und ashore! Do the mountains absorb the sound of this song all day and give it back at night? Or is the chanting of drowned Yangtse boatmen to be heard after dark!
Each large junk carries at least eighty
to a hundred men. Of these the vast majority are towers. Then fifteen or so remain on board to fend the junk off the rocks. Four are especially appointed to free the hawsers if they catch on the cliffs,
These men innst climb down or be let Then there are the down by a rope.
must plunge in after it. These men are the physically fittest in China, and their THE
strength and nerve would make them-a "GLENSTRAE,"
credit to any nation. Last, and must Captain McGillivray, having arrived from important, are the helmasman, or laopan, the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are and the bowman, or taikan. The latter's hereby informed that their Goods are being part on the down-river journey is to landed at their risk into the Godowns of the dance and rave at the critical places in Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown order to rouse the men to supreme efforts. Company Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Sometimes towing is impossible, and then Consignees risk and vaponse.
the men work on the junk, rowing, poling, and clawing the rocks with their boat hooks with a perfected technique which is the wonder of all who witness it.
Sometimes the junk hangs on to the cliff, held only by the hamboo boathooks in the strong hands of the crew, and the lives of all on board are as a candle in the wind. The Chinese say that one junk in every ten is lost. Every now and again one saw wrecked junkmen, sur- vivors, camping by the side of the river. while their craft was being mended or a new boat built. Our own red boat was wrecked on the fourth day out, and it was
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We are almost on the rapid before the last man grasps the or. Then yelling and wailing and gnashing of teeth; the roar of the water, and, above all, the
sound of the river sucking at the bottom We of the boat. From time to time a sell ends in a laugh, and soon we are clean Then there is a little aughter. No concerted laughter, but each laughs as a man laughs who is quite alone. They ship their cars, swallow tea,
smoke. and settle down
As we neared the Yeh Ian or Wild Rapid the men decided that they would wait an hour to give the corpse of a certain drowned man, which had been following the boat for some time, a
with a sell the men to the oats, and I see a deep depression followed in such manner, and the Yeh many hundreds of feet wide and with Ian is one of them. This one-fallowed hole in the centre moving rapidly towards us in all for a day and a half, for though us. The purring deepens into growling it often lost time in the whirlpools, still The slit eyes of the boatmen grow wide it always overtook us, for we stopped for with fear, and for an instant they stop food and rest-then it gained on us. their rowing and turn with dropped jaws Some say that if a man is drowned he to look at the hole for which the bow must remain in the river, till he has suc- of the boat is rapidly making. A roar ceeded in drowning someone else, and for from the topaz urges them for another this reason the drowned follow boats. effort-and-again the cars-rap the water, We wait for our turn at the rapid and Zzz, Zzz, what time they groan and the the men smoke It is very hot with the copper-coloured bodies sway violently damp heat of Mid-China, the air is backwards and forwards in an ecstasy heavy with the smell of opium. The day is dim with too much light. We watch of effort. Will she have us or won't she: not this time, Yangtae! Try again the junks taking the rapid one after And again they lie down to smoke. Then another; on they come, the song of the follows an hour of rest such as God gives rowers and the sound of their feet stamping grow louder and louder. It is a snperb sight, each yellow junk with is beloved.
its sixty to eighty naked men riding their boat at the rapid. Our turn comes.
We enter the thirty-mile long Urishan ta usia (or Witches' great gloomy mount) Gorge. We drift in the middle of the river, turning in slow circles, and the eye is satisfied with seeing. The yellow river is green in the shadow of the
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