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ICHANG-CHUNGKING

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昌宜

I-chang-kwan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Act. Commissioner-F. W. Maze

Assistant, B.-R. F. Wrench

Do., B.-H. Menze

Medical Officer-W. Kirk, M.D., M.C.S.

Out-door Staff

Acting Harbourmaster and Tide-

surveyor-C. F. Goodhart Acting Boat Officer-H. A. Farrell Assistant Examiner-G. Kopp

Do. Do.

-G. Houlston

-P. C. Peterson

First Class Tidewaiter-A. Gray

Second

do.

Third

do.

Fourth do.

Fifth

do.

Watcher A. W. Horne

LEKIN COLLECTORATE

Tien-choo-tang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Right Rev. Fr. Theotimus Verhaeghen Bishop tit. of Syena and Vicar Apostolic of Southern Hupeh

Rev. Fr. P'Giovanni Franzoni, provicar Rev. Fr. Gabriel van Gestel

Rev. Fr. Mauritius Robert Rev. Cassianus Kleinenbroch (absent) Rev. Marcellus Sterkendries Rev. Angelus Timmers Rev. Polidorus Vercruysse Rev. Florentius Robberecht Rev. Hubertus Adons

Rev. Solano de Cock

-T. Sinclair -J. J. Woods -C. Keay

Rev. Libertus Callebaut

-J. A. Hersted

Act. Depy. Comisur.-W. C. H. Watson

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

C. Him-shan, agent

Agencies

Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited

Canton Insurance Office, Limited

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Sun Life Assurance Co., of Canada

MISSIONS

For Protestant Missionaries see end of

China Directory

Rev. Victor Stolle

堂母聖

Chen-mou-tang

Rev. Sœurs Franciscaines

Rev. Mère Marie de la Transfiguration,

superieure

Rev. Mère Marie Trifine and six Sisters

司公船輪安谜

YANGTSE TRADING COMPANY, LD.

Lu Sui Tung, agent

局政郵清大昌宣

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Asst. Postal Officer-J. A. Urquhar

CHUNGKING

I Chung-king

慶重

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 30 sec. N. long., 107 deg. 2 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province. All exports-yellow silk, white wax, hides, leatlier, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, opium, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines-are received, assorted, repacked, and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shasi, consignments to the latter port being transhipped there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, via the Tung Ting lake.

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtsze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side of the Yangtsze. It is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is some five miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. The climate of Chungking is depressing, the summer being hot and damp, the winters raw and chilly, with thick fogs from November to March. Spring and autumn can indeed hardly be said to exist. The ordinary rise of the river is about 70 feet; in 1892 it rose 96 feet, and in 1897 to 101 feet, the water not being able to force its way fast enough through the gorges. An extraordinary landslip occurred in September, 1896, some distance below Chungking, which forms a dangerous rapid and greatly interfered with traffic on the river. Operations are

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