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• 07 Drying Clothes at Bowles' Yangtze River Wreck
  Portrait of six of the missionaries standing in the sand bank of the Yangtze in front of their drying clothes. The ones on the left look a little perturbed due to the event that just happened, whilst the others look giddy despite the event. Newton Bowles stands to the far left. He comments that he looks "the most like a tough," with his hat cocked to the side. The exact location of the Bowles' junk accident is unknown; however, we do know it occurred in the region now flooded by the Three Gorges Dam.
• 06 Bowles Yangtze River Party at Wreck Site
  Picture shows the missionary ground gathered around the items they salvaged from the wreck, such as straw, crates, a dresser, some picture frames, and an assortment of books and papers strewn across the ground. The clothes are drying on lines in the background, and far in the back is a forest. The exact location of the Bowles' junk accident is unknown; however, we do know it occurred in the region now flooded by the Three Gorges Dam.
• 05 Bowles Wrecked on the Yangtze River
  In the foreground on the rocky river bank are some clotheslines held up on sticks drying the clothes that were soaked in the accident. The missionaries are gathered in front of the damaged junk, which the trackers are maintaining. The exact location of the Bowles' junk accident is unknown; however, we do know it occurred in the region now flooded by the Three Gorges Dam.
• 04 Trackers on Shore Preparing for the Gorges
  When the Bowles's houseboat reached the entrance to the Three Gorges above IChang (Yichang), the captain hired extra trackers who lived in this region specifically to perform this job. Sometimes over 100 trackers were needed to literally pull boats up the rapids.
• 03 Yangtze River View Showing Sheer Cliff
  Scene of a cliff within one of the Yangtze River gorges with a single tree atop it. A houseboat in the lower left foreground provides a sense of scale to the rock faces on both sides of the river.
• 02 Rapids Through the Yangtze Gorges
  Image shows two Chinese junks riding on the rough rapids of the Yangtze. Pictured in the background are the sides of the gorges with trees on them.
• 01 Dangerous Rapids on the Yangtze River
  Image of Yangtze shoals. This refers to the German steamer Sui Hsiang which, on its maiden voyage in 1900, struck this rock and sank within 15 minutes. Two CIM missionaries who were on board were saved by the Chinese lifeboats that were stationed here due to the frequency of accidents at this place (Davidson 1905).
• Horse Carriage in Victoria
  Photo shows Newton Bowles in a group of people riding on a horse-drawn carriage through a residential street in Victoria, British Columbia. Three houses are captured in the background. This shows North American transportation at the port where the "Victoria Eight" were about to board the ocean liner, the Empress of China, on their inaugural journey to their chosen mission field in West China.
• Bowles and Friends at Whitby
  Portrait shows 18 women and 6 men at Whitby, Ontario. The group is posed in front of a large tree on the grounds of a church or school visible in the background. The women are lined up with their hands on each other's shoulders. The men are sitting on the ground in the foreground. Two of them are holding up a sign that says, "CHINA." This probably represents a going away party for 6 of the "Victoria Eight" in Bowles' hometown of Whitby, Ontario.
• Six of the Victoria Eight
  Group portrait of six graduates of Victoria College of the eight who joined the Canadian Methodist Mission to China in 1906. Front row (left to right): Newton Bowles, Edward Morgan, Charles Jolliffe; Back row (left to right): William Sibley, Harold Robertson and Edward Wallace.
• 1906-1907 Bowles' First Yangtze River Journey
  Bowles was a member of the "Victoria Eight," graduates of Victoria College at University of Toronto who pledged to become missionaries in China. These six did so, several of them featuring prominently in Bowles' narrative.