Chapter 12

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​‌​​​‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​​​⁠No member of the earth's great brotherhood of dangerous waterways is blessed with quite the degree of peril which menaces those hardy ones who dare the River of the Golden Sands.

Bobbie MacLauren's steamer, the Hankow, was the net result of long ship-building experience. Dozens of apparently seaworthy boats have gone up the Yangtze-Kiang, not to return. After years of experiment a somewhat satisfac