《烟河》继承了上本书的故事情节和部分人物，他们从加尔各答往中国去，到达位于珠江三角洲的港口城市、今天中国的商业中心——广州。

“River of Smoke” takes the story, and some of the first book’s characters, from Calcutta to the port-city of Canton (now called Guangzhou) on the Pearl River delta, then and now, China’s emporium.

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你将膏油盛满了角，我差遣你往伯利恒人耶西那里去。

Fill your horn with oil and be on your way; I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem.

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但是就在他逃跑的时候，他那往四面八方伸展的角被树枝缠住了，不一会儿豹就把他给抓住了。

But as he ran his wide-spreading antlers caught in the branches of the trees, and soon the Panther overtook him.

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