Identifier: yankeeonyangtzeb00geil (find matches)
Title: A Yankee on the Yangtze : being a narrative of a journey from Shanghai through the central kingdom to Burma
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Geil, William Edgar, 1865-1925
Subjects: China -- Description and travel Yangtze River (China)
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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book. Leaving Shin Gai, North, on Monday, the cavalcadetook Early Rice at Takuan, a Prefectural city whichhas never regained the glory it possessed before theGreat Rebellion. Only yellow dogs and black hogsappeared to be alive. The shops were closed forNew Year, and the whole place, with its tumble-downhouses, presented a deserted appearance. The furrowsof Stern Ruins ploughshare were evidencedeverywhere. The most conspicuous feature of thelandscape at Takuan is Turtle Hill, on the summit ofwhich is a red tower and a white temple. The head ofthis monster turtle is turned toward Yunnan, and thepopular superstition is that it absorbs the influenceswhich make for fertility and prosperity, in Yunnan,and by some process of digestion manufactures thesolid riches and passes them out into the Province ofSzechuen. Hence the poverty of the former and thewealth of the latter. To modify this as far as possible,the temple has been erected on the back of the turtle,and a reliable god put in charge.
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