. Peking and the overland route. Railway Company is miles. The express train carriages, including dining andsleeping-cars, are of the newest type manufactured by thePullman Car lighted by electricity and with the bestarrangements for venlilation and heating. In August, lOOS, a reguUir steamshij) service wasestablished between Daiicn and Shanghai, thus complet-ing the shortc-st and (juiekest rouU; Iji-twinii Kuro|>e andShanghai. The ser\ice is j)erformed by the steamers Sakaki .Maru and Kobe-Maru. I he steamers leavingtwice a week in each diKctiitii. The .Sakaki Maru is aturbine s
. Peking and the overland route. Railway Company is miles. The express train carriages, including dining andsleeping-cars, are of the newest type manufactured by thePullman Car lighted by electricity and with the bestarrangements for venlilation and heating. In August, lOOS, a reguUir steamshij) service wasestablished between Daiicn and Shanghai, thus complet-ing the shortc-st and (juiekest rouU; Iji-twinii Kuro|>e andShanghai. The ser\ice is j)erformed by the steamers Sakaki .Maru and Kobe-Maru. I he steamers leavingtwice a week in each diKctiitii. The .Sakaki Maru is aturbine steamer, . tuns, sp <»| lU knots, and is fittedwith every up-to-date appliiuicc lor comfort, safety andconxcnience. 128 The Soutlv Munehuria Railway Company also has asystem of Hotels : the Vamato Hotels at Dairen. PortArthur, Hoslii^aura, Mukden aiul ^(rlnm. Theiroutfit and euisine are exeellent, the Yainato Hotel atDaircn bein_<f ])artieularly luxurious and considered oneof the finest hotels in the Far Yamato Hotel, Dairen CLIMATE. The (climate of South Manehuria, is dry and l)racingand the eountry may be visited at al! seasons of the ]irin<i and Autunni are ])artienla,rh delightful, the Winteris eold, the thermometer often falling, l)elow 7Xro (warmruijis should he taken to protect travellers when drivingagainst the dry, eold, north winds.) Heavy rains aresometimes experienced during July and August. INDUSTRIES AND is the principal industry of the country,the princi])al jnoducts being soya beans, wheat, milletand kaoliang—these four being generally enlti\ated inrotation throughout Manchuria; about 90% of cultivatedland is taken up by these four crops. 129 Ttissor Silk is chiefly procliu-ed in South Manchuria ;the output of tussur cocoons ])robabIy amounts to 500,000piculs a year, worth about ten million yen. Honey-Bees are raised in regions along the RiverAmur, the upper course of the Sungari, and in the forestlands al
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