On the river the effects of the storm were exon more marked. The deep yellow cloud was seen creeping up the Yaigize whilst the boats and junks higher up were either pexefully crossing the fiver, or quietly riding at anchor in calm water. At the sight of the dull cloud every sail was hastily pulied down and the boatmen rowed for very life to reach the shore before the storm burst upon them, The junks made fast their moorings, or dropped an extra anchor, the beats waiting for customers by the river banks were hastily drawn up higher, whilst many a luckless man about to return to Wuchang or ow resigned himself to spending the night with the Yangtze rolling between himself and his home. When the dust cloud came at any distance was hidden as ina fog and those on the n s could sce nothing of the boats struggling to cross. By eight or nine o'clock the air was comparatively and all night the wind howled and at Jeast one Lot was overturned in the storm.
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