Word: rivermen
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...river between Hankow and Ichang make a legend dear to the hearts of the merchant skippers at Ichang. Some say she was towed up by hundreds of Chinese trackers, and others that she came up under her own power, making sometimes as much as 15 miles a day. Yangtze rivermen frequently express the opinion that if she ever lost her mudhooks in her present state she would drift right down to Shanghai, unless her crew were able to get a line ashore...