Ino pay, only food is provided, the reason being that little or no tracking is required when proceeding with the stream, the men, how-lover, had to accept these conditions in order to get a passage back to chang, so as to track other craft stream It_ is unnecessary to give' a Jdctailed description of the trip up iver, or the gorges or rapids, which the traveller of to-day can see for himself. In general, we plugged along day after day. On some days when the going was good we covered as much as twenty miles, on others perhaps eight ten miles. At times, due to head winds, especially in the gorges, we had to tle up for hours on end, and I recollect that took us two whole days to pass through the Wushon Gorge, a distance of some 25 miles, the transit of which is now made' in two or three hours, We experienced no great difficulty in passing over the rapids, although we sometimes had to wait our turn to ascend. At the
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