The River of Golden Sand: Being the Narrative of a Journey Through China and Eastern Tibet to BurmahJ. Murray, 1883 - 473 páginas |
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amongst appeared arrived Assam Baber bamboo bank Baron von Richthofen Bat'ang Bhamo boat Brahmaputra buttered tea called Captain Gill Ch'êng-Tu Ch'ung-Ch'ing chief Chin-Tai China Chinaman Chinese coolies crossed cultivation English European foreigners Francis Garnier frontier GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION Gill's gorge Hankow hills hundred feet I-Ch'ang inches India Irawadi JOHN GILL journey junk Kiang Klaproth Lamas Lamassery leaving Lhassa look Ma-Fu Man-Tzu Marco Polo Mesny miles mission missionaries morning mountains nearly never officials passed Peking plain pony province reached rice Richthofen river road rock rope round Royal Geographical Society seemed seen servants Shanghai Si-Fan side slopes soon Ssu-Ch'uan steep stones stream summit Ta-Chien-Lu Ta-Li Ta-Li-Fu taels thousand feet Tibet Tibetan Tien-Tsin told town traveller trees Tsanpu valley village walk walls wild WILLIAM JOHN GILL yards Yun-nan
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Página 38 - ridden by the doctors; what was good enough for their fathers, is good enough for them.
Página 272 - ... attending. And the disease, by being communicated from the sick to the well, seemed daily to get ahead, and to rage the more, as fire will do, by laying on fresh combustibles.
Página 66 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Página 118 - Nan case has occasioned ; and on account of claims of British merchants arising out of the action of officers of the Chinese Government up to the commencement of the present year, Sir Thomas Wade takes upon himself to fix at two hundred thousand taels, payable on demand.
Página 95 - British subjects are hereby authorized to travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trade, to all parts of the interior, under passports which will be issued by their Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities.
Página 69 - ... as decifive; and, till the year 1765, the Burrampooter, as a capital river, was unknown in Europe. On tracing this river in 1765, I was no lefs furprifed, at finding it rather larger than the Ganges, than at its courfe previous to its entering Bengal.
Página 117 - Wade •will thereon reply to the effect that for two years to come officers will be sent by the British Minister to different places in the provinces to see that the proclamation is posted. On application from the British Minister, or the Consul of any port instructed by him to make application, the high officers of the provinces will depute competent officers to accompany those so sent to the places which they go to observe.