The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . tensive gold-washings,where we were warned to look to our guns, as thediggings were situated in a kind of no-mans land, outof the jurisdiction and protection both of mandarinand guild, and upwards of three hundred outlaws hadassembled there to wash the sand for gold. However,though we spent a night close to them, they did us noharm. Beyond was an extensive swamp, I think the worstof all. We crossed it, fortunately, without accident, andthen came to the H
The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . tensive gold-washings,where we were warned to look to our guns, as thediggings were situated in a kind of no-mans land, outof the jurisdiction and protection both of mandarinand guild, and upwards of three hundred outlaws hadassembled there to wash the sand for gold. However,though we spent a night close to them, they did us noharm. Beyond was an extensive swamp, I think the worstof all. We crossed it, fortunately, without accident, andthen came to the Hua-pi Ho (the Khu-i-fa Eiver ofthe maps), a very large tributary, and found ourselves TAXG-TTO-KOF TO KIHTX i i at last outside the forests amidst regular road onwards was a cart road, muddy and heavy,but it was a great relief to be out of the eternal trees,and no longer to hear the constant chop, chop of theaxe clearing the way for the mules, and to see wavingcorn and millet instead of rank ferns and miles south of Kiriu we crossed the last pass,called Ching-ling. Here was ocular demonstration that. OUTSIDE A PAWNSHOP. we had come once more under the inefficient rule of themandarins. A large roadside shop close by was regu-larly fortified, and its master told us that, though sonear to the capital, the pass itself had been the sceneof a terrible massacre only the year before. Threecarts laden with opium and deer-horns were plunderedin open day, and nine persons in charge of them werekilled. We met several heavily-laden vehicles goingup the pass, and the carters were all armed to the 278 THE LONG WHITE MOUNTAIN teeth. Farther on, the country became better cultivatedand more and more populated. In one large village,called Heng-ta-ho, theatricals were going on, to fillup, said the people, the slack time between the coininginto ear and. the ripening of the grain, when the culti-vator has but little to do. Fancy a set of Britishfarmers chartering
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