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CHAPTER VII 
JOURNEY UP THE RIVER CONTINUED 
Necessity of haste—Intricacy of channel—Pagodas—Gold washers—Fu- 
chau—‘ Weigeren’ boat—Meet Mr. George—Collecting larve and 
Coleoptera—Arrive at Chung-king—Visit Resident—A large and 
important town—Change in crews—Disagreeable incident—Leave 
Chung-king—Fine scenery—Bamboos and llamoo trees—Heronries 
—Vexatious delay—Cedars—Hostility at a small town—Poppies and 
tobacco—We land but are obliged to return—Robbery on board— 
Rise in river—Boat in danger—Man overboard—Lhu-chau in ruins— 
Meet Mrs. Riley—Arrive at Sui-fu—Beautiful place—Natives Mahom- 
medan principally and well disposed to foreigners—Large trading 
place—Upper Yang-tze—Leave for Kia-ting-fu—F ishing with cormo- 
rants—Ancient caves—Chien-wei-hsien—Brine wells—Suicide «of 
soldier—Chu-ken-tan. 
April 13.—A light breeze helped us at our usual 
daylight start, and during the day I noticed the beauty 
of the vegetation, which was of a sub-tropical character. 
I often regretted that in such spots I could not make a 
longer stay ; but knowing the importance of pushing on 
as rapidly as possible, for my intention was to get as 
far to the westward as I could before summer was too 
far advanced, I was obliged to forego the pleasure, in 
the hope that I might be able to make a stay on my 
return journey at those places which seemed the richest 
