Last Sunday morning there arrived in Ichang Dr. and Mrs, Canright and four children, from Chengtu. Their boat was wrecked coming over tie Ch'in T'an (Rapid) about 40 miles above Ichang. They man-
of them were floating about in the water. aged to save their boxes, although a few They came on to Ichang in a lifeboat and had a very cold ey, having to spend night in an open boat. It was pitiful to see the condition of the contents of some of the boxes, with clothes, books, native scrolls, and curios sonking' wet Dr. Caaright reported the loss of a native cargo boat at the same rapid just immediately before his own boat struck a rock. The bottom of the cargo boat was knocked out and the cargo lost, but the boat was floated to shore.
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