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Citation Information
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE EVER-WHITE MOUNTAIN.
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My first journey to Dharmsala—Robert Shaw—Preparations for an extended journey—Mr. H. E. M. James—Decision to go to Manchuria—Arrival at Newchwang ' The Ever-White Mountain "—To Mukden—Chinese inquisitiveness—Tomb of Nurhaden—To the Yalu River—Want of milk and butter—Industry of Chinese colonists—We enter the great forest—Mosquitoes —Sable hunters—The Sungari River—Its sources—I reach the summit of the " Ever-White Mountain "—Kirin—Chinese dinners—Chinese manners
CHAPTER II.
MANCHURIA TO PEKING.
Start for Tsi-tsi-har—The Sungari again—Luxury of milk and cream—The Mongolian and Chinese frontier—Return to cultivation—Hulan—Torturing of Père Conraux—Pei-lin-tzu—A pattern mission station—Sansing—A Chinese fort and guns—Ninguta—Chinese carts and carters—The Russian frontier—Hunchun—Transport of Krupp guns—General I—A Russian frontier post — Cossacks — Colonel Sokolowski — Russian hospitality —
Novo-kievsk—The Corean frontier—England and Russia ... ... 22
CHAPTER III.
BACK TO PEKING.
'We turn our faces homewards—Kirin—Hsiao Pa-chia-tzu—The Roman Catholic mission—To Mukden-14° below zero—Winter traffic—Mongolian ponies—A frozen mist—The Scottish mission at Mukden—Its medical work—Return to Newchwang—My indebtedness to Mr. James—Remarks on Manchuria—Its products and people—Christmas Day in a Chinese inn
Shan-hai-kuan — The Great Wall of China — Compared with the Pyramids — Kaiping — A procession of corpses—British navvies — The Kaiping coal-mine—Mr. Kinder—How he constructed his locomotives—The first Chinese railway—Native superstitions and prejudices—Feng-shui
Tientsin—Ice-boat sailing—New Year's visits—Peking . .. ... 42
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