CHAPTER XVIII

ADRIFT ON THE KIN-LUNG-HO On the morning after the typhoon, the swollen waters of the Kin-lung-ho presented a sorrowful appearance. The yellow swirling current was covered with debris--junks, some floating buoyantly, others listing and waterlogged; masses of bamboos that had once formed parts of houses; domestic articles and implements of husbandry and handcrafts; trees and bales of hay and rice-grass; corpses of men and animals floated downstream in a hideous jumble. Lying face upwards upon a raft-like structure-…