Fast Ovk Cuaxcsua Ce Judging by the number of occa going steamers that were lying Henkow during the few days we were there, it must be a somewhat commonplace thing to journey. in tone from. Hankow.to Shanghai, Nevertheless, in the uncounted nom-ber of journeys that T have taken 1886, T have never had the opportunity of merely having a passing look at Chinkiang and Wahu (in those days it was a passing look. at Nanking) and at Kiukiang. In 1686, I travelled by what was then the oldest boat on the River, the Kiangfoo. For a Rood many years she was the only steamer that was running in 1886 Jand stil continued to ron (if one except entirely reconstructed boats). One of the engineers told me that one of the parts of the machinery bore the date 1812 on I took my place on the Hugo Stinnes boat Emil Kirdorf at Bane ow bound for Naples. She turns out to be a fine bent of over 9,000] tons, capable of carrying some 50 passengers, all first class. Some lof the passengers came on board in Japan and have had a free side-trip to Tientsin and Mankow—just 13 those of us who got on at Han-ow have just had from Hankow to Shanghai.
We started at dawn on Thursday, August 7, having been -delayed some time in Hankow for! extra cargo—all to the good of the Jcompany, and when the company {is 20 good as this one has been to vs, who would grumble? "Of course, passengers who travel by cargo boats expect delays. The boats make their money on cargo and of on passengers.
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