To the Editor of the "Norra-Cumma Datty News."
Sim,—Partly in correction, and also in continuation, of one of this morning's "Day to Day" pare re "Shipping on the Upper Yangtze," way I say that while Capt. Plant made his first voyage through the Gorges in the Shutung in 1909, that was by no means his first trip with a steamboat through the Gorges. Capt. Plant took up the Pioneer in 1900, and the writer was one of the refugees picked up from a native boat and crowded aboard her on her first down trip August, 20 years ago, during the Boxer uprising. Steaming down the Gorges and Rapids at full steam on a maiden venture was a thrilling experience, not likely to be forgotten by those who shared it, and who showed their appreciation of the skill and daring of Capt. Plant by a suitable presentation. It may interest some to know that the British gunboat Kinsha, now lying off the Bund, is the identical Pioneer which first went through the Gorges as a merchantman on the initiative of the late Archibald J. Little, who had previously himself taken a steam launch up 10 Chungking to demonstrate the
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