TAILIEUCHUNG - TO HONGKONG AND CANTON

We had come to learn how the old-world farmers bad been able to provide materials for food and clothing on such small areas for so many millions, at so low a price, during so many centuries, and were anxious to see them at the soil and among the crops. The sun was still south of the equator, coming north only about twelve miles per day, so, to save time, we booked on the next steamer for Hongkong to meet spring at Canton, beyond the Tropic of Cancer, six hundred miles farther south, and return with her. On the morning of. | TO HONGKONG AND CANTON We had come to learn how the old-world farmers bad been able to provide materials for food and clothing on such small areas for so many millions at so low a price during so many centuries and were anxious to see them at the soil and among the crops. The sun was still south of the equator coming north only about twelve miles per day so to save time we booked on the next steamer for Hongkong to meet spring at Canton beyond the Tropic of Cancer six hundred miles farther south and return with her. On the morning of March 4th the Tosa Maru steamed out into the Yangtse river already flowing with the increased speed of ebb tide. The pilots were on the bridge to guide her course along the narrow south channel through waters seemingly as brown and turbid as the Potomac after a rain. It was some distance beyond Gutzlaff Island seventy miles to sea where there is a lighthouse and a telegraph station receiving six cables that we crossed the front of the out-going tide showing in a sharp line of contrast stretching in either direction farther than the eye could see across the course of the ship and yet it was the season of low water in this river. During long ages this stream of mighty volume has been loading upon itself in far-away Tibet without dredge barge fuel or human effort unused and there unusable soils bringing them down from inaccessible heights across two or three thousand miles building up with them from under the sea at the gateways of commerce miles upon miles of the world s most fertile fields and gardens. Today on this river winding through six hundred miles of the most highly cultivated fields laid out on river-built plains go large ocean steamers to the city of Hankow-Wuchang-Hanyang where 1 770 000 people live and trade within a radius less than four miles while smaller steamers push on a thousand miles and are then but 130 feet above sea level. Even now with the aid of current tide and man these brown turbid waters are rapidly adding .

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