SIXTY-NINTH ARTICLE, Mankow.
It is a mad sort of town, is Shasi. It is built in a hole, It lies beneath the level of the Yangtze when the river is in anything like flood, and it fights the rush of the waters with a dyke that is one hundred and twenty feot at the base. Now and then that dyke has burst, and hundreds of thou-sonds of festing corpses have been the result. The last inundation was a century ago.
SBut never again will there be any breaking or overflowing or drowning of Chinamen. At least, so think the Chinese, The Ywigtze dare not doit. It must hold itaelE within bounds. There are great rough cast-iron rhinoceri perched on the bank, and as the rhinoceros is the urd of the waters, the. waters have to mind their p's and q's. I saw two of the brutes (writes Mr. Fraser, in continuation ut his narrative recounting the ride across Hupeh). "They must have been fearsome unco upon atime. But sai gious Chinamen have knocked off the hind
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