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ARRIVAL AT CH'UNG-k'ING.
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not without satisfaction that, on the 22nd of November, I at last beheld the pagodas which herald the approach of a great city, and a little later tied up at the foot of the celebrated river port of Ch'ung-k'ing, romantically situated on a rugged spit of land jutting out between the Yang-tsze and Chia-ling rivers, and faced on the south by a range of wild and picturesque mountains. The first stage of my journey had been completed, and before me rose the steep and narrow thoroughfares and busy buildings of the commercial capital of the west.
