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MISSIONS

ICHANG-CHUNGKING

For Protestant Missions see end of

China Directory

堂主天

Tien-choo-tang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Right Rev. Modestus Everaerts

Bishop tit. of Tadama and Vicar

Apostolic of Southern Hupeh

Rev. Quirinus Henfling, pro vicar

Angelus Timmers

Gratianus Laurent

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Marcellus Sterkendries

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Polydorus Vercruysse Hubertus Adons

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Seraphinus Melissen

Damianus de Walleff

Thaddous Jacobs Mathias Vlaminck

Natalis Gubbels

11 Deodatus Janssen

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Robertus van Voorden

Julianus Adons

Thomas Kempenaers Franc. Xav. Corbisier

Clementianus De Vuyst Trudo Jans

Rev. Achilloeus Van Den Bosch

Rev. Theodoricus Hesseling

Solano de Cock

Libertus Callebaut

Victor Stolle

Julianus Verhaeghe

Donatus Sammels

Chen-mou-tang

REV. SŒURS FRANCISCAINES MISSION-

AIRES DE MARIE

Rev. Mère Marie Béatrix & 8 sisters

司公船輪清日

Tai-pan tseung-lun kung-tze

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA, THE, Tel. Ad.

Nisshinkisen

Y. Ohbe, agent

F. C. Lu

P. Y. Chow

Agency

The Tokio Marine Insurance Co.

局政郵清大昌宜

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL Chinese

District Postmaster-W. T. Lay

District Inspector-C. Geear (Wanh-

sien)

Postal Officer-E. Rose

SALT LEKIN COLLECTORATE

Commis'ner-in-charge-W. T. Lay

德立 Li-teh

THE WEST CHINA TRANSPORT Co.

Mackenzie & Co., Ld.

J. Stenhouse, inagr. (Chungking)

L. R. Wheen, resident agent, signs

per pro.

Agencies

North China Insurance Co., Ld.

China Mutual Life Assce. Co.

Upper Yangtsze Syndicate, Ld.

CHUNGKING

慶重

I Chung-king

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 106 deg. 30 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, leather, 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 Yangtze, 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 Yangtze. 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 75 feet; in 1892 it rose 96 feet, and on 6th August 1898 to 101