Citations:Yellow River


 * If the cities and towns of China ſtand as thick throughout the empire, as on the canals navigated by the Engliſh, from the Yellow River to Pekin, it does not appear how there can be ſpace for agriculture to feed them.
 * UNDER the firſt Dynaſty of the Tang, the Banks of the Yellow River having tumbled down, there were found three 'thouſand three hundred Pieces of Money with three Feet; but the Characters were defaced.
 * After passing a short stage, through low lands with very different prospects, a succession of good towns and villages, numerous vessels, and crowds of people, indicated the vicinity of the Yellow River, into which the canal falls with a gentle force. November 2d, the yachts came to the spot where the canal joins the Yellow River. The Yellow River runs at this place with such rapidity that the Chinese sailors deemed it necessary to offer a sacrifice to its Guardian Spirit for a safe passage.
 * The history of the monument is as follows. In the 61st year of the reign of ', there happened so great and general a deluge in the empire of China, that the Yellow River''', surmounting its banks, was confounded with the waters of two others, and, overwhelming the plains, became, as it were, a vast sea ; insomuch that the hills were covered ; it surpassed the mountains ; and appeared to extend to the clouds. The evils which this deluge occasioned exceeded the powers of description ; the chief necessaries of life were wanted, the people were reduced to misery, and the sovereign was overcome by dejection.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * After passing a short stage, through low lands with very different prospects, a succession of good towns and villages, numerous vessels, and crowds of people, indicated the vicinity of the Yellow River, into which the canal falls with a gentle force. November 2d, the yachts came to the spot where the canal joins the Yellow River. The Yellow River runs at this place with such rapidity that the Chinese sailors deemed it necessary to offer a sacrifice to its Guardian Spirit for a safe passage.
 * The history of the monument is as follows. In the 61st year of the reign of ', there happened so great and general a deluge in the empire of China, that the Yellow River''', surmounting its banks, was confounded with the waters of two others, and, overwhelming the plains, became, as it were, a vast sea ; insomuch that the hills were covered ; it surpassed the mountains ; and appeared to extend to the clouds. The evils which this deluge occasioned exceeded the powers of description ; the chief necessaries of life were wanted, the people were reduced to misery, and the sovereign was overcome by dejection.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.
 * Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.