At last a figure passed across a distant glade and at the sight Kai Lung lifted up a restrained voice in song: "At the foot of a bleak and inhospitable mountain An insignificant stream winds its uncared way; Although inferior to the Yangtze-kiang in every detail Yet fish glide to and fro among its crannies Nor would they change their home for the depths of the widest river.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
Confining attention to Asia these figures, large though they seem, are far exceeded by those of the Yangtsze-kiang.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie
Konishi marched to the north and found the king at Pingshang on the borders of the river Taitong-kiang.
"Japan"
David Murray