CONTENTS 

 CHAPTER III 



EXPEDITIONS TO CHANG-YANG AND SIN-TAN RAPID 



PAOK 



Want of forest near river — Chang-yang — Journey to — Description 

 of Country — Pigs and leopards— Jungle — Reeves' pheasant — 

 Return to Ichang — Enormous creepers — Soap trees — Ichang 

 Gorge — Pin-san-pa — Mu-tan Rapid — Ta-tung Rapid — Curiously 

 worn rocks— Crews of large junks— Lu-kan Gorge — Shale— 

 Sin-tan Rapid — Me-tan Gorge — Insults at Sin-tan — Chinese 

 monopoly of steam navigation— Steps up precipices — Nan-too 

 — ' Needle of Heaven ' — Arrival at Ichang . . .27 



CHAPTER IV 



CHANG-YANG 



Preparations for trip to Chang-yang— Hiring coolies — Passport — 

 Start with Dr. Henry — Description of House — Robbery of cash 

 — Collecting Coleoptera — Pony killed by tiger — Tigers common, 

 but no man-eaters — Poisoning tigers — Wild pigs— Boars' tusks 

 offered for sale as tigers' teeth— Deer- Porcupines — Pheasants 

 — Plants and flowers- Hostility of natives — I complain at 

 Ichang — Punishment of agitators — Excursion to the South — ■ 

 Deep ravines — Etu River — Varnish tree — Method of collecting 

 varnish— Trade of district — Edible fungus— Heavy damages — 

 Preparation for return to Ichang . . . .40 



CHAPTER V 



SHA-SHIH AND PA-CHOW 



Excursion to Sha-shih — Large town with considerable trade — Rav- 

 ages of cholera - Ho-sia — Try to find lakes, but fail — Trouble at 

 a village —False information — Further insults —Treachery of 

 coolies — Arrival at boat — Sturgeon — Stopped by head wind — 

 Washing for gold— Tiger's Tooth Gorge— Loss of silver-laden 

 junk —Return to Shanghai with Mrs. Pratt— Purchase cases for 

 collections and duck-guns — Wild-fowl on Yang-tze — Return to 

 Ichang — Floods — Decrease in size of river above Tung-ting 



