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with fair weather and favorable tides reach Hangchow the next after- 

 noon anywhere after three o'clock. Three companies are now running 

 these trains, two Chinese and one Japanese. Everything is managed 

 in a creditable and business-like fashion, and one can make a fairly 

 comfortable trip at reasonable expense. It is possible, using this 

 launch service, to leave Shanghai on Friday night, see the Saturday 

 night and Sunday afternoon bores, and be back in Shanghai on Monday 

 morning. By private launch even better time can be made and a 

 record round-trip of sixty hours, allowing fifteen hours at Raining to 

 witness both a day and a night bore, and five hours of shooting during 

 the return, was made by some Shanghai enthusiasts in October, 1902. 

 On the other hand, the pleasures of house-boating in the region 

 traversed, especially during the fall months, should not be under- 

 estimated, and if one is not pressed for time a very comfortable and 

 interesting trip on a private boat, propelled by yulow and' pole and 

 landing you at the Haining Pagoda at the end of the third day from 

 Shanghai, will allow a full enjoyment of the various scenes which 

 enliven the river and canal banks throughout the Yangtse's delta. 

 A satisfactory compromise between these two plans may be effected by 

 taking a cabin passage on a launch train as far as Samen on the Grand 

 Canal, which is reached at noon of the day after leaving Shanghai, and 

 then hiring a native boat to be yulowed along narrow, well-shaded 

 canals to Haining, which under fair conditions should be reached by 

 six or seven o'clock that evening. 



Leaving the wharf in Soochow Creek, Shanghai, shortly before 



An Ordinary passenger Craft used by the Author for the Trip. 

 Samen — Hainung — Hangchow. 



