TO THE SNOWS OF TIBET 

 THEOUGH CHINA 



CHAPTEE I 



THE YANG-TZE AS FAR AS ICHAXG 



Object of journey — Departure from England — Arrival at Shanghai — Kiu- 

 kiang — ' Little Orphan ' — Lu-shan Hills — Plowers — Temples — Rain- 

 fall — New snake— Collector bitten — Silver woi'k — Hankow — Passport 

 obtainetl — Leave for Ichang — Sunday Island — House rented — Cess- 

 pool— House-boat hired — San-yu-tung — Joss-house — New papilio — 

 Ferns and plants — Fishermen — Birds and monkeys — "Wild goats- 

 Flying squirrel — Chinese moimtaineers — General aspect of glen — 

 Return to Ichang. 



So little of this great world of ours is new to the ex- 

 plorer or the naturalist, that it becomes more difficult 

 year by year to find unworked fields. Choice is there- 

 fore mainly confined to those which have hitherto been 

 only superficially examined. The countries in which 

 these occur are not easy for a European to work in, 

 either from the hostility of the natives, or difiiculty of 

 travel and the transport of collections. After consider- 

 able thought I decided to proceed to China and ascend 



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