Kinsha Kiang

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The original plan⟳, strictly adhered to in our subsequent journeyings, provided that we should penetrate to the headwaters of the Kinsha Kiang, tributary of the Yangtse, and by a portage across the wild mountain fastnesses of Koko Nor descend to the source of the Hoang Ho, following its stream to the east- ward and to civilisation once more.”

“We may conjecture that in this section of the route Marco worked down into the valley of the Kinsha Kiang, Upper Yangtse, or Brius; that his Sinugul is Siuchau at the confluence of the Min and the Kiang; and that he passed into the basin of the latter river in the neighbourhood of Tungchwan ⁶.”

“The Yangtze Kiang was known to the Chinese as the Ta Chiang, or Great River, and changed its name⟳ more than once over its three thousand miles as it ran from Tibet into China; first the River of Golden Sand, then the Kinsha Kiang, then, as it deepened and boiled through its gorges to reach⟳ the sea, the Yangtze Kiang.”

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