The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . what the settlers impose upon items in their legislation are peculiar, but prac-tical. We saw one proclamation warning people notto harbour certain bad characters, whose names were 1 The Emperor Kanghi had a fence put up on the right-hand side of theroad between Moukden and Kirin, not far from Ye-ho, to mark that all themountainous country beyond was sacred, and reserved for imperial tract immediately adjoining that fence is still
The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . what the settlers impose upon items in their legislation are peculiar, but prac-tical. We saw one proclamation warning people notto harbour certain bad characters, whose names were 1 The Emperor Kanghi had a fence put up on the right-hand side of theroad between Moukden and Kirin, not far from Ye-ho, to mark that all themountainous country beyond was sacred, and reserved for imperial tract immediately adjoining that fence is still called the ImperialHunting Park, and it is so marked on the Chinese map. 202 THE LONG WHITE MOUNTAIN given. A second forbade Coreans to fish. The Coreans,be it noted, are employed in large numbers as agricul-tural labourers by the settlers, who want them, so theysaid, to labour in the fields, and not waste their time insport. A third was for regulating the trade in ginseng,and forbade any person buying or selling it before acertain date. The penalty for transgression of that lawwas, in the case of a rich person, a fine to the guild of. A COREAN FISHERMAN. one pound of rice (a luxury in the hills), ten taels inmoney, and two pigs weighing at least seventy-fivepounds each. If the offender were an outsider, andtherefore moneyless and unable to pay the fine, he wasto be beaten to death with sticks. This law was for theprotection of zealous ginseng seekers, who sought themore remote valleys, and occasionally found the marketforestalled by less venturesome hunters returning beforethe season was fairly over. The guilds are most efficient CWA NG-PALSIIA N. MOUXTAIXS 253 institutions, and the only place within Manchuria wherelife and properly may be said to be really secure iswithin their limits; although, from the configuration ofthe country, and the vast area of forests with whichi! is covered, robbers would, under ordinary circum-stances, find there a safe refuge. In fact, it is a b
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