Owing to the abnormal amount of wet weather thie autumn, however, a steam-lin unch still runs to Yang-hsin, (With low water it has to stop running.) It covers the journey in something less than three hours.
By midday the rain had lessened, and here was one's chance of fulfilling week-end appointment. The day was Friday.
The launch "state at 2 o'clock."
That is to say, if full it may start soon after one, and sometimes sts "two o'clock" may mean three, But when © messenger came from the river-bank, saying: "The launch is ready to start. You'll be just in time if you hurry, sir,"—one naturally took the words at their face value, and on reaching the riverbank, found the launch moored some fathoms away, whistling most peremptorily. At two o'clock precisely, I was on board with my coolie' and luggage.
ney is 600 cash for the The faro for the thirty mile jour and 500 cash for deck-na seen under an awning. The "saloon" is little cabin, 11 by & by Sft.; but on the Customs certificate' framed in a conspicuous place", it is registered to hold sixteen persons. And the deck itself. thirty-seven. For seats the cabin has three low bunks, one on either side, and an ornamented bunk at the end, with mirror and clock. The latter was quite an hour slow.
No "captain" wae visible. He did not arrive till half-past three, and then had to fill-in passenger-tickets. He was a short, turdy, jovial man, who seemed to take life very easily. He was dressed in foreign style—a rarity in these parts. etebrities En Voyage soon after, a "girl of the tights, Shanghai farhion—s certain eign here of a depraved profession. For the rest of the women dress a8 of yore. The girl seemed quite at her ease, and in answer to worl inquiries, told the company that she was going to Yanghsin "to wor
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