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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURADA BEBRUARY 18,1904.
bed at the outer edge of the itting; above, projecting over
and affording me a covering immediately
NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY:
BOSTON ‹ TOW-BOAT COMPANY.
PROPOSED SALLINGS FROM HONGKOND,
VIA
SHANGHAI, INLAND SEA OF JAPAN,
though the boat was open at the ends. cently from Hengchou in Hunan to Canton af. The boat, as I have said, was specially con We started on 1st December, I say "we,structed for shooting tapids. It was long, for the officials took care that I should not go pluched in the waist, and had high prow without an escort. A petly officer (mounted), † and stand Avery long and strong our projected' and some eight or ten soldiers were sent to both over the bows and over the stern, used, not guard the foreigner, Then, of course, there for propulsion, but for steering, the boat in and were the baggage coolies. So we made quite out among the rocks while shooting.down the a little party, For the first four days I rode rapids. They were worked by a lateral mo thy own pony. Several roldiers marched in tion, the oars, really acting as levers, which by front, I rode behind these, then came several being fixed at the ends of the boat, and taking more soldiers, and then the small officials, n'good grip of the water, could be used to turn The baggage coolies trundled along in the the boat about at will. When bow and sterà cars were usedi simultaneously, and in opposite rear, with a couple of soldiers told off as guard.
1904 Tons. Captains. **Steamers. Thus, in a single file, we wound along the directions, the boat could with ease bo swivel- narrow stone-paved roads, in and out among led round by a single, stroke. For two days wo
were shooting down the most awful-looking || Shawmut....606 W. M. Smith... Feb. 19 the paddy fields.
water-slides it has ever been my lot to.en Tacoma...... 1812 M. Ridley.... Feb. 26
·Victoria* 3,502 Truebridge... Mar 16 counter. Time and again I thought we must
Tremont.......9,606 TW, Garlick.Mar... Olympia 2,837 A. Dixon... April, 27
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We did not get very for the first day and put up early at a miserable little inn. It was my first taste of Chinese inns, and I found it fully surely be smashed to pieces among the rocks as bad as I had been led to expect. It was not, Sometimes wet and won dom alerting however, as bad as some of the places I slept in pace apparently dead upos lome projecting afterwards. It is not particularly comforting.tock, and just when one expected the crash të after a hard day's ride, to stop at a dinty,draughty come, one sweep of the long car would'throw little hovel, and, shivering in the cold and the bows to one side, and we would glide darkness, to await the arrival of the baggage. swiftly, and safely by. I must say the boat: There could be no bed, of course, and no food men on this river are wonderfully alert, and until the coolies arrived. When they did turn skilful in manipulating their craft. up, I had to make my own bed, and prepare my times we scraped over sunken rocks, which own supper. Water had to be boiled over the mide our timbers creak, but instead of small spirit-lamp, and ten, sugar,, bread, sard. butting before the pressure, "the bottom ines, etc., extracted from the depths of the pro- blanks, being made of 'a pliant kind of wood, vision basket. It would take a Mark Tapley to yielded and bulged inwards, so that as the be cheerful under such conditions! After boat passed over the rock a regular wood-wave supper the only thing was ta'roll oneself up in would run visibly along the bottom of the boat, On one occasion, however, we did spring a the wadded quilt and fall asleep. We were up father, bad leak, but this was quickly controlled again about five in the morning, and with frozen hands and feet, and no hot drink, or creature by caulking the seam up with some soft stringy comfort of any kind, would stumble on for some material. A small boy was afterwards kept five or six miles in the frosty darkness. When busy baling periodically for the rest of the
journey. it was light enough we would stop at some way. aide in and get breakfast. För the whole of my journey I subsisted on bread and the tinned provisions that I took along with me. Bread was my chief difficulty, hat twice on my way I met with kindly missionary friends who restock- ed my failing supplies.
As I have said. for the first four days I rode on horseback. My road lay almost
directly south all the time until we reached the southern border of Hunan, Some of the country we passed through was very fine indeed, hilly always, and sometimes thickly wooded. On the evening of the fourth day we reached Ch'enchou, a large town not far from the border. The country here is very moun. tainous and really grand, and it was a real pleasure to ride along amidst such fina scenery, We reached the city shortly after sunset, and I made stmight for the premises now occupied by the American Presbyterian Mission, where I was very warmly welcomed by the resident
The scenery all along this northern`fributary of the North River is very fine and wild, Rocky promontories and hills come right down to the water's edge. The mountains on either side ate high and thickly clothed with timber. This I saw was being cut down, made jato rafts, and | floated: down stream. The quantity of wood along that one place of fiver slone is simply
enormous.
KOBE AND YOKOHAMAA FOR VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA, IN CONNECTION WITH .. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
COMPANY.
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are hereby notified that their Goods are at their risk being discharged into Lighter and/or landed into our Godowns Nos. 1 and 2, at} Kennedy Town, (Marige Lot÷243), and de livery may be bad either from Lighters or from
our Godowns, upon countersignature of Bills of Lading.
Goods remaining unclaimed after the roth instant, will be subject to rent..
All Claima, must be sent in to me on or before, the aand instant or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance bas been effected.
E. W. TILDEN, Agent. Hongkong, tath February, 1904."
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Steamers marked i have no second-class THEP.&O.S. N. Con Steamship passenger accommodation.
The attention of passengers is directed to the very cheap rutes offered by this.lipe to the Cities of the United States and to Europe. Pacific Coast and to the Interior and Eastern Special rates allowed to members of Coverar ment Services,
Through Bill of Lading issued to Pacist Coast Points and to the Principal Cities in the United States and Canada.
For further Information as to Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, Géberal Agents,
(12 Hongkong, 5th February, 1904.
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WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION has won its high reputation among medical men, and the people of all civilized countries. They trust it for the same reason, that they trust in the familiar laws of nature or in the action of common things. This effective remedy is palatable as honey and cöntäînî'äll the nutritive and curative properties of Fare Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Sylup of Wild Cherry. It quickly eradicates the America. Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and
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P. TO-DAY.
having been of all ages." It is a product of
Goods not cleared by the 19th instant, at 4 PM, will be subject to rent.
any case whatever, .....
No Fire Insuranes will be afected by me in Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees MARSEILLES, MEDITERRANEAN AND and the Company's representative at an
SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, COLOMBO, ADEN, EGYPT,
BLACK SEA PORTS, LONDON, HAVRE, BORDEAUX; PORTS-or-DRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE,
·ALSO
ON TUESDAY, the 33rd February, 1904,
at P.M., the Company's Steamship "YARRA," Captain Sellier, with Malle, In two days we reached a place called Lo-Passengers, Specie and Cargo will leave this ch'ang. From here I took another small boat to Port for MARSEILLES, A Porte of Call, Shaochou, on the North River proper, which 1 WITHOUT TRANSHIPMENT. reached the following day in a miserable and dilapidated Condition, as I was suffering badly from an attack of dysentery contracted as a result of the hardships of my travel,
Here I was again fortunate in meeting with friends of the Wesleyan. Mission, who very kindly relieved my many needs, put me up for the night, and helped me to get a large boat to take me to Canton.
Down the North River from Shaochou to missionaries. Saturday and Sunday I spent Canton, took me five days. The scenery in in Chenchou, and re-started on my journey in an open chair on Monday, 7th December. Amany parts is very fine, but I was not in a
fresh escort was provided for me at this stage, the first returning to Hengchot and taking my pony back with them.
On the second day after leaving Ch'enchou I reached the large town of Ichang. The road between these two places is by a long way the broadest and best laid stone road that have seen in China. It is at least ten or twelve feet broad, and strongly and compactly made, but the stones, worn by the foot of man and beast for many generations, are very polished and slippery. The road really forms a part of the old overland trade route between Canton and Hankow. Before the days of steamers in Chinese waters, all the Cantonese trade passed northwards over this famous road. The traffic
deserved, "This condition to admire it a part of my journey was woeventful, I-kept my revolt handy for the pirate, but was not troubled by them at all.
"On'16th December, (ie, on the sixteenth day after staning) I reached the great city of the South, Canton, and my journey, for a time st least, was at an end,. It was indeed a treat, after hard and comfortless journey, to reach cleanliness, and order, and civilisation once again, in the British Concession at Canton.
ERNEST C. PEAKE, M.B.
Auction.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
on it, in those days, seems, from all accounts, THE Undersigned has received instructions
to have been tremendous. Droves of males, and ganga of coolies, are said to have con- stantly crowded the road. The people along the route bemoan the fact that the good old days have gone. The wayside is lined by large unused inns and empty warehouses,— relics of the departed glory. Of course, when the foreign steamships appeared, the bulk of the trade went round to the North við Sbanghai, and then up the Yangtze, A certain amount of trade still goes on over this old road, and it was very interesting to me to see what I could of it. I met large numbers of wretched mules laden with salt. These poor bearts have, in .the course of years, actually wom deep hoof prints into the stone, which, I understood, they make careful use of in wet weather, when the road must be extremely slippery.
Besides salt, Kwangtong appears to supply Hunan with a vegetable oil, large quantities of which I saw carried, by means of carrying. poles, on the shoulders of coolles. The trade going the same way that I was going,
that is from Hunan inte Kwangtung, seemed to conslet chiefly of tobacco-leaf from the Ch's chon district, palm-fibre for making ropes, and fire-crackers from Slangtan. The scenery all along this route is hilly, well-wooded, and very
'fine.
My next stage was from Ichang in Hunan, over the border, to a place on the Kwangtang vide called Pingsbl; To do this'we had to cross the high mountains which divide the two provinces from ach other. There is a very Ane pass leading over the range. From the top of this I got my first birde eye; view of the
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
TO-MORROW
(FRIDAY), the 19th February, 1904, Commencing at 2,30 PM.,
at No. 1o, Ice House Street, ALL THE FURNITURE AND GEAR BELONGING TO
"CLUB. EINTRACHT," Including a quantity of Furniture. Ona Full-Sized ENGLISH BILLIARD TABLE
One FRENCH BILLIARD TABLE. One SEMI-GRAND PIANO,
Two BOWLING ALLEYS with Gear, TERMBAs Customary.
"On View from THURSDAY; the 18th inst.
Catalogues will be issued."
GEO, P. LAMMERT,
'Auctioneer, Hongkong, 12th February, 1904, ...
Insurance.
Cargo and Specie will be registered for Loni transit through Marseilles for the principal don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted lo places of Europe.
Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon only on MONDAY, the 22nd instant, Specie and-Parcels received until 4 P.M. on the same day. No Cargo will be received on board on TUESDAY.
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For further Particulars, apply at the Com
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appointed bour
AU Claims, myst be, presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will.be admitted after the Goods
LA HEWETT,
Superintendent. Hongkong, 13th February, 1904
TORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP
COMPANY.
have left the Godowns,
No
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP "TACOMA," FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO-
HAMA, KOBE AND MOJI.
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The above, Steamer having arrived, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby requested to soad in their Bills of Lading for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside
will be landed and stored at Consignees sisk Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel
and expense. G. DE CHAMPEAUX, .Agent.
·(g any case whatever,
Hongkong, 11th February, 1904.
ORIENTAL
STEAM
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THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH. AND LONDON. Through'Bills of Lading issued for DATAVU, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERI CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.) *HE Steamship
"CHUSAN," Captain W. B, Palmer, R.N.R...carrying Hi Majesty Mails, wil be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 19th instant, at Noon, taking l'assengers and Cargo for the above Ports,
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo fet France and Tea for London (under arrangement) wil be transhipped at Colombe into a steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and Lunden other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyo rid Bombay.
Barcels will be received at-ibis Qfies patil 4 [31. the day before sailing. The Confedts an
Value of all Packages are required.
NORTH GERMAN-YIRE INSURANCE NCOMPANY OF: HAMBURG. ·
THE Undersigned, AGENTS, of the above
Company are prepared to accept First Chur FOREIGN and CHINESE RÍŠK5 11. CURRENT RATES,
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southern province. It was a magificent sight, Hongkong, 13th February, 1904.
Mountains, plains, and rivers lay spread at my feet as on some gigantic map. It did not take us long to coma.down on the other side of the mountains, at the base of which lay the town of Pingshi. We reached, this place about four o'clock in the afternoon. The town lies on a tributary of the North Riverso Utim. mediately set about to find a small boat to carry me southwards "Only small craft, specially constructed for navigating the supids, are to be seen here, but I knew could get a larger boat when we got into the main?atymam, It was not long before 1. hait ébtained a passage on board a small boat, laden with tobacco and -fire-crackers, that was abook to start immediate··
ly. So almost as 6000) aboard, of we wante full that I bad only
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