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Identifier: tosnowsoftibetth00pratrich (find matches)
Title: To the snows of Tibet through China
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Pratt, A. E. (Antwerp Edgar)
Subjects: Natural history -- China China -- Description and travel Tibet (China) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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I I I 27 CHAPTEE III EXPEDITIONS TO CHANG-YANG AND SIN-TAN RAIID Want of forest near river—Chang-yang—Journey to—Description ofCountry—Pigs and leopards—Jungle—Reeves pheasant—Eetiurn toIcliang—Enormous creepers—Soap trees—Icliang Gorge—Pin-san-pa—Mu-tan Eapid—Ta-tmig Rapid—Curiously worn rocks—Crews oflarge jiuiks—-Lu-kan Gorge—Shale—Sin-tan Rapid—Me-tan Gorge—Insults at Sin-tan—Chinese monopoly of steam navigation—Steps upprecipices—Nan-too— Needle of Heaven —Arrival at Ichang. The chief difficulty that presents itself in China to theentomoloi^ist is the lack of accessible virmn forest, andthe want of reliable information as to where the rarer,or perhaps as yet undiscovered species, may be expectedto be found. The rivers appear to be the natural high-roads of the natives, and as the banks are generallythickly populated, the forest has long ago disappeared.Marco Polo spoke of the river Yang-tze as being thicklywooded in places where a

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