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travelling on a comfortable steamboat for 

 more than 1,500 miles up the river, but he 

 may go farther on in native boats, or he 

 can stop at any of the ports on the river, 

 and with a native or foreign houseboat 

 reach the interior in almost any direction 

 by means of the creeks and canals which 

 interlace the whole region and often flow 

 from large and beautiful lakes. 



If the shooter goes up the river on one 

 of the steamers leaving Shanghai he can 

 stop at either of the following places, the 

 distance being computed from the mouth 

 not far from Shanghai : Kiangyin, 105 

 miles ; Chekiang, 165 miles ; Nanking, 243 

 miles ; Wuhu, 264 miles ; Ngank'ing, 370 

 miles ; Kiukiang, 458 miles ; Hankow, 600 

 miles; Ich'ang, 1,000 miles; Hsu chow, 

 1,500 miles ; and he can make his choice of 

 a steamer belonging to either of the follow- 

 ing steamboat companies trading on the 

 Yang-tze river : The China Merchant 

 Steam Navigation Company (Chinese) ; 

 Indo-China Steam Navigation Company 

 (Jardine, Matheson and Company) ; China 

 Navigation Company (Butterfield and 

 Swire) ; Norddeutscher Lloyd (Melchers 

 and Company) ; Hamburg Amerika Linie 



