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[[underlined]] Chapter I. [[/underlined]]                3.

that the region would abundantly repay excavation when the opportunity should offer. Our reconnaisance upriver terminated at the lower end of the Yangtze Gorges, just above the river port of I-ch'ang 宜昌, approximately a thousand miles' journey from the sea.

[[underlined]] Negoti[[strikethrough]] ons [[/strikethrough]]^[[ations]] opened with the Chinese. [[/underlined]]
   From I-ch'ang we returned downriver to Hankow 漢口. Here I had the good fortune to find the American Minister to China, Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, and availed myself of the opportunity to explain the nature of our plans and ask his aid in putting them into effect. This aid Dr. Schurman cordially promised. He assured me further that he had no doubt that the Chinese would welcome our tender of a coöperation certain to prove of such great mutual benefit. Their acceptance of our offer would do much, he felt, toward increasing among the American people their sympathetic interest in China and in all Chinese. Dr. Schurman kindly promised to go definitely into the matter with me as soon as we should both be in Peking.
   Mr. Tung and I then proceeded by rail to Peking, where we arrived on April 21st. On the 29th of the same month I addressed to Dr. Schurman, at his suggestion, a formal letter setting forth the purpose of our expedition and the policies which I had been instructed to follow. The next few weeks were devoted to interviews with persons in a position to give advice or render assistance in the furthering of our plans. Among those with whom I talked were Dr. W.W. Yen 顏惠慶, former Premier of China; Dr. V.K. Wellington Koo 顧維鈞, [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs; Dr. V.K. Ting 丁文江, Honorary Director, and Dr. W.H. Wong 翁文灝, Director, of the Geological Survey of China; Mr. Lo Chên-yü 羅振玉 and Mr. Wang Kuo-

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