The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . he describesthe country north of Tsitsihar as just what it is to thesouth of it, a boundless rolling plain, dotted with postalstations, and inhabited by Solon Manchus or Dahurs(Daurians),1 a Tungusian tribe. Mergen is more like avillage than a town, lying in an open desolate country,bare of trees. Beyond is a steep pass over the rangewhich forms the watershed between the JNonni and theAmur, covered with dense forests at the top. Hei-lung-kiang, called by
The Long White Mountain : or, A journey in Manchuria; with some account of the history, people, administration and religion of that country . he describesthe country north of Tsitsihar as just what it is to thesouth of it, a boundless rolling plain, dotted with postalstations, and inhabited by Solon Manchus or Dahurs(Daurians),1 a Tungusian tribe. Mergen is more like avillage than a town, lying in an open desolate country,bare of trees. Beyond is a steep pass over the rangewhich forms the watershed between the JNonni and theAmur, covered with dense forests at the top. Hei-lung-kiang, called by the Jesuits Saghalien (the first is theChinese, the other the Manchu word), is now only apost station. Beyond that lies Aigun, the main Chinese 1 Vide page 23, footnote. KIRIN TO TsrrsiifAi; M) outpost on this part of the frontier. Seventy lil fartheron comes Sakhalin, and opposite to that, on the lefthank of (lie Amur, stands Blagovaschensk, the principalRussian station on the Upper Amur. So says the Archimandrite. A gentleman who did the journey toldus it was only thirty or forty. The Jesuits call it thirteen li; perhapsmeant ORNAMENT FROM A TILE ON A MONGOL LAMAS T0MH. 310 THE LONG WHITE MOUNTAIN CHAPTER XL TSITSIHAR TO SANSING. The steppe—Artemisia plant—Soda and other salts—Primitive method ofextracting soda—Wolves—A sad story—A Mongol cottage—Mongolchildren—Hsiao-chia-tien—Hulan—Manufacture of cart-wheels—Don-keys flesh—A terrible massacre—Pei-lin-tzu—Wild-goose shooting—Brigands in the road—The Ohretiente—The priests room—A victim ofopium smoking—Deep wells—Fortifications against brigands—A curiousweapon — Harvest — Pa-yen-shu-shu — M. Raguit — M. Card—Home-made wine—Hsiao-shih Ho—M. Riftard—Experiences of brigands—Ourescort—Extortion—Verdict of Europeans on the Chinese—Sport nearPa-jen-shu-shu—An ancient plate—Low degrees of temperature—Wisecolonists—Good pheasant-shooting—Fowls of the
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