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Title: From western China to the Golden Gate; the experiences of an American university graduate in the Orient, with thirty illustrations
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Sprague, Roger, b. 1869
Subjects: China -- Description and travel
Publisher: Berkeley : Lederer, Street & Zeus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ects are brought to themby a powerful tug or tender. The steamer inwhich the writer was to travel was an immenseboat of 21,000 tons displacement, twenty-twoknots speed, entirely constructed in Japan andmanned too by the Japanese, except for theAmerican captain and purser employed as aconcession to the travelling public. Accord-ingly, on the afternoon of departure the writerembarked in the tender. As the powerful tugswirled on its way down the broad reaches ofthe river, we passed a fleet of old-style war-junks. There they lay—a long line, mooredend to end, with their clumsy sails, immense,overhanging sterns, and old-fashioned smooth-bore cannon pointing over the bulwarks. As Ileaned on the rail and watched them, I thoughtto myself that of all the strange, bizarre, andantiquated objects which I had seen in China,the strangest of all were these. The most curi-ous sight I saw had been reserved for the last. We were now rapidly approaching oursteamer as it lay bulking large on the river.
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ox THE BUXD AT SHAXGHAI. Sprague, photo. 86 with its huge yellow funnels and ventilators, itsturbine engines and its triple screws. We madefast to the gangplank, and, as soon as the pas-sengers were on board, one of the seamen seizeda lever and began to torture the steam-winch,which in response spat, hissed, growled andsnarled, and presently the baggage was beinghoisted on board to a growling and snarlingaccompaniment from the steam-winch. So smoothly did the engines do their work,that we had been under way an hour before wewere aware of it. We crossed to Nagasaki forcoal, and from there proceeded to Kobe, whichwe reached one evening after a glorious day onthe Inland Sea under ideal weather conditions.After Kobe, our next port was Yokohoma,where we lay three days, the time permittingof excursions to the capital, Tokio, to whichYokohoma bears the same relation that thePiraeus did to Athens. Oh, what a contrast the shops of the twocities, filled with their beautiful art work—cloisonne

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