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62 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP.. III.

through the forest, the marshes, and especially

when he had to carry his kit on his back, I

used to marvel. To a young subaltern the

thing was natural, but when a high Indian

official of more than twenty years' standing did

it, there must have been in him a wonderful

amount of " go" and pluck, and this Mr. James

undoubtedly possessed.

After parting with Mr. James, Fulford and

I started for Tientsin. We passed nothing of

interest till we reached Shan-hai-kuan, the

point where the Great Wall of China begins,

or ends, in the sea. A line of hills between

two or three thousand feet in height, stretched

from inland close down to the seashore ; and

all along these heights, as far as the eye could

reach, ran this wonderful wall, going down the

side of one hill, up the next, over its summit

and down the other side again, and then at the

end finally plunging right into the sea. It was

no trumpery little wall, nor such a wall, for

instance, as one sees round a modern prison,

but a regular castle wall, such as men built in

the Middle Ages round their strongest castles,

thirty or forty feet high, of solid stone, and

fifteen feet or so thick, wide enough for two

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