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[[underline]] Chapter XV. [[/underline]] 331.

the ancient capitals of Yüeh and Wu (the latter at the present Soochow; see Appendix II, page 21).  I decided, instead of spending more time on the lower Yangtze, to proceed at once farther upstream; for there I hoped that better fortune might attend us.  In this we were destined not to be altogether disappointed.
     Early in the morning of May 30th, [[insertion]] ^[[1925]] [[/insertion]] therefore, Mr. Tung and I started for Hankow, on the Japanese river-steamer [[underline]] Siang-yang Maru. [[/underline]]  We reached Nanking, the former "Southern Capital" of China, next day, and while our steamer lay at her dock my old friend Mr. Orvar Karlbeck (see page 59) had himself set across the Yangtze in a sampan, and we enjoyed half an hour's talk about various ^[[p]]roblems of Chinese archaeology.
     We then resumed our upriver journey, and toward sunset of June 2nd reached Hankow, 640 miles above Shanghai.  The following evening we exchanged to the British river-steamer [[underline]] Siang Wo [[/underline]], of shallower draught. [[superscript]] (294) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (294) [[/superscript]]  Ocean-going steamers ascend the Yangtze as far as Hankow. Thence upward the voyage requires vessels of successively less draught. Above Chungking, in Szechuan (roughly 1400 miles above the sea^[[),]] motor-launches are now employed; although when I first traversed that portion of the river, early in 1916, the picturesque old-style river traffic carried on in native boats of all sorts, still existed little changed.
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Among our new fellow-passengers were Mr. George S. Parker, founder and head of the Parker Fountain Pen Co., and his wife and daughter, who wished to see the famous Yangtze Gorges [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] despite the unsettled state of the country.
      Although I have made numerous voyages up and down the great river, at all stages of water, [[superscript]] (295) [[/superscript]] never have I been so impressed with its vast-
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[[superscript]] (295) [[/superscript]] Like the Nile, and like nearly all Chinese rivers, the Yangtze is liable to floods, which here come in summer and often result in wide-spread devastation and great lo^[[ss]] of life.
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ness, width, and overwhelming force.  The Yangtze was then nearing its flood-stage.  In many places it already stood far above the land on