k'eo

Updated: May 29, 2025

After we had left this rapid and right glad were we to get away we came, after a couple of hours' run, to the Niu K'eo, or Buffalo Mouth Reach, quiet enough during the low-water season, but a wild stretch during high river, where many a junk is caught by the violently gyrating swirls, rendered unmanageable, and dashed to atoms on some rocky promontory or boulder pile in as short a space of time as it takes to write it.

Edwin John Dingle - Across China on Foot