Kinsha Kiang

Kin Sha Kiang English Etymology From the Nanjing-dialect (later Postal Romanization) romanization of cmn 金沙江.Jinsha River, conventional Kinsha Kiang, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun Kinsha Kiang en Jinsha Jiang. en 1899 William Jameson Reid I Through Unexplored Asia https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_1791244/ Boston Dana Estes & Company 3054486 16 https://archive.org/details/bib_fict_1791244/page/16/ The original plan, strictly adhered to in our subsequent journeyings, provided that we should penetrate to the headwaters of the Kinsha Kiang, tributary of the Yangtse, and by a portage across the wild mountain fastnesses of Koko Nor descend to the source of the Hoang Ho, following its stream to the east- ward and to civilisation once more. en 1949 w:C. Raymond Beazley II The Dawn of Modern Geography https://archive.org/details/dawnofmoderngeog0003beaz/ New York Peter Smith III 486381 111 https://archive.org/details/dawnofmoderngeog0003beaz/page/111/ We may conjecture that in this section of the route Marco worked down into the valley of the Kinsha Kiang, Upper Yangtse, or Brius; that his Sinugul is Siuchau at the confluence of the Min and the Kiang; and that he passed into the basin of the latter river in the neighbourhood of Tungchwan ⁶. en 1987 John Harris 1923-1939 China Seas https://archive.org/details/chinaseas0000harr/ w:Arrow Books 0-09-953620-X 154157249 305 https://archive.org/details/chinaseas0000harr/page/305/ The Yangtze Kiang was known to the Chinese as the Ta Chiang, or Great River, and changed its name more than once over its three thousand miles as it ran from Tibet into China; first the River of Golden Sand, then the Kinsha Kiang, then, as it deepened and boiled through its gorges to reach the sea, the Yangtze Kiang. en References