This distant port is now, for the first time in its history, resplendent in the pres e of three vessels of His Majesty's now at anchor in the river—tho Wondlark and Woodcock. The er, the ship of the senior naval officer, Captain Somerville, arrived here on the
year in these upper waters. The Kinsha, 18th May, 1401, and so has spent over a Captain Powell, who took yarr in the ous expedition of Admiral Seymour at tsin, where he was severely wounded, arrived here on the 3Jst May Inst from Kueifu, where she has been wintering, oaking the run of 320 miles thence to Chungking in 35 steaming hours, being the unprecedented average on the Upper Yangtze of 9$ nautical miles an hour over the ground up-stream. This fine voss-I, formelly the Pioneer, improves in her ste"ming each voyage she makes. Our old friend the Woodlark put in x welcome appearance on the (glorious) 1st of June, having run up from Ichang in 834 steaming hours, which gives an average over the
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