Excerpt from Through the Yang-Tse Gorges: Or Trade and Travel in Western ChinaThe following pages comprise little more than a transcript of the journal kept by me during a two months' journey from Shanghai, the metropolis of the coast, to Chung-king, the commercial metropolis of Western China. This journal was written up each night, as I travelled along in the native boat, and was despatched home by successive mail for the amuse ment of my friends in England. I have been induced to publish it in the belief that impressions formed and recorded day by day on the spot, give a better idea of the actual state of things in China than many of the elaborate and carefully compiled books which attempt a more exhaustive description of the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.