slate the followi 1 fiom the ne of the Bulte de In Societe jo de Paris" have the pleasure yeu that the French colours ace floating ver the Upp Our lui honour to e-utile to me the gunboat Dry, sri bought ready-built at Shanghai, ned and armed to make the of the rapids between Tehang an We have bad twenty-one The Dry, Iuaentably constructed "by Eng! news, was IM nw Way w suitable boat for the task; but sie was the only available one to be found, and we had to take her such as she was.
We rat great dangers, underwent considerable fatigues; but we hae succeeded, And now in the smmnth water above, where it the Ohy is here try. T have given a pend nly not cusier, to the dose i ex.
The Upper Yangtze is extremely dan-eros; its rapids and above all its whirlpoo's make it practically inaccessible to commercial navigat Hovrst.
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