Meaning of Kin-sha-kiang | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“He dwells by the Kin-sha-kiang, which is the river of the golden sand, and his wife has the feet of a mouse.”

“At length he reached the banks of the Kin-sha-kiang, on the borders of what is now Yunnan. Here his advance was resisted by the troops of the kingdom of Nan-Chow, reinforced by various native tribes.”

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“If you drive out from K’unming towards the west you skirt the edge of the poplar-fringed lake and its busy inland port. The mountain sea is drained by the Putu-ho, an affluent of the Kin-sha-kiang, or River of Golden Sand, as the Yang-tsé is called in its upper reaches.”

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