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Index 



Wen-tanghsia ( Warmpool Gorge), 

 197, 229 



Western China, British imports 

 into, 7 ; exports from, 8-10 ; 

 silk cultivation in, 11 ; popu- 

 lation of, 12 



Wheat plantations, 33 



Wheeler, Dr., 139, 140 



White Cliff Mountains, near 

 Ichang, 41, 42 



White Elephant Street, Chung- 

 king. 175 



Wildfowl, the Chinese and, 22 



Wild-goose Gate Barrier (city), 

 22 



Wild Mule Gorge, 227, 298; 

 rapid, 132 



Witches' Mountain Great Gorge, 



72. 73. 78 

 Woosung, railroad to Shanghai 



from, 248, 249 

 Wuchang, city of, 18, 244 ; hill 



in, 248 

 Wu-ling chi (point called), 108, 



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" Wupans" (sampans), 237, 238 



Wu-sankwei, rebellion suppressed 

 hy, 77, 20S 



Wu-shan, city of, 73, 78, 80, 81, 

 292 



Wu-shan Gorge, 80, 292 



Wu-shan-ta-hsia (Witches' Moun- 

 tain Great Gorge), 72, 73, 

 78 



" Ya-men runners," 130 



Yang-tse River, the only road of 

 intercommunication between 

 the east and west of China, 

 ix„ X., 4 ; steamers on, 15, 

 16 ; an affluent of, 19 ; rests on 



banks of, 21, 22 j different 

 names of the, 27, 253 ; entry 

 into the upper region of, 32, 

 33 ; width of, above Ichang, 51, 

 52 ; summer rise of, 53 ; stretch 

 of, known as " Yao-tsa ho," 55 ; 

 trackers on the, 57, 58, 94, 95, 

 II0-H2, IIS; at Wu-shan, 80; 

 gold- washing in the Upper, 102 ; 

 known as the Chuan Ho and 

 the Seng Ho, 132 ; affluent of, 

 known as the Siao Ho, 140 ; 

 ferries across, at Chung-king, 

 159, 166 ; course of, between 

 Ichang and Chung-king, 225 ; 

 Blakiston and the voyageurs of 

 the, 231 ; life-boats on the, 243, 

 24S, 246 ; increase of junk 

 traffic on, 247 ; volume of water, 

 255, 256 ; sediment in, 256, 

 257 ; Marco Polo on the, 258 ; 

 sources of the, 259 ; fish in the, 

 267 ; first ascent of the Upper, 

 by s.s. Leechuen, 287-300 



Yang-tse valley, physiography of 

 the, 253-271 



Yang tu chi, village of, n6 



" Yao-tsa-ho," stretch of the 

 Yang-tse River, known as, 55, 

 261, 289 



" Yeh-lo tze" (Wild Mule Rapid), 

 132, 227, 298 



Yeh-tan rapid, 66, 69, 70, 291 



" Yellow cat " Gorge, 53 



Yellow River, the, 269 



Yen men Kwan (city), wildfowl 

 in, 22 



"Yen-tun" (smoke-towers), 59 



Yen-wei shih (rock), 83 



"Yin" (Dead), temple dedicated 



to Emperor of the, 119, 120 

 Y-Iing, twin screw boat, 36 



