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Citation Information
54 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. III.
six months before, and, after all the hardships
and the frequent ennui of travel, the delight of
getting in touch again with one's friends and
inhaling one soft breath of air from our native
land was intense and almost bewildering. It
made us forget all the hard part we had
gone through ; that all seemed a dream now,
and just that touch from outside put enough
new energy into us to have started us con-
tentedly on another fresh journey if need had
been.
Fulford and I met with no incident on our
road to Kirin, though we passed the body of a
man who had on the previous day been mur-
dered by brigands ; and on November 26 we
rejoined Mr. James at Kirin. The great
Sungari was now frozen over hard. The ice
on it was more than a foot thick, and we were
able to trot our carts smoothly across a river
three hundred yards wide and twenty feet
deep.
From Kirin we pushed on rapidly to Mukden.
The cold was now becoming intense. On ac-
count of the heavy traffic on the road, we had
to make early starts in the morning so as to
secure places at the inns in the evening. We
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