A Journey to Kiangsi's Capital:
A Great River and What It Might Become From 4 connesrox Travelling in the interior of this and is interesting if nothing more, changes there are now everywhere, of we sometimes fear very few for the better. Recently com Kiukiang to Nanking we the fortune "to land just when there was a blizzard blowing, and the Company could not bring-their steam ferry to receive the passengers and take them across to their destination, We were all supplied with the regulation ferry] tickets, but there was no ferry, s9 vall had to take what accommodation, they could find in the inns at the railway side of the river. It was wresting to notice that other {steam launch Tines were doing their to: work jway Company; their guests had already paid for transportation the other side, so whether they came or not it was all the same, so they not come. Ffficioney???
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