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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
6 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. I.
I shall ever be grateful, and I shall always feel
that it was to Mr. James that I owe the first
start on my career of travel.
Both of us had an inclination towards China,
and we at once decided in a general way that
to China we should go. It so happened that
in my leisure hours I had read up a number of
books about Manchuria, Mongolia, and North
China, and compiled itineraries from them. I
was therefore able to give my chief, Sir Charles
Macgregor, then Quartermaster-General in
India, some little proof that I was serious in
the matter, and he promised to help me and
do what he could to smooth over difficulties
about my leave.
Our plans now shaped themselves into a
journey round Manchuria. It was a country
of many interests, and was then but little
known. It was the cradle of the present ruling
dynasty of China ; and the few travellers who
had been there had described its lovely scenery,
its noble rivers, its fertility and natural re-
sources, and the healthiness of its climate.
Reading all this in the heat of India, we were
fascinated by such descriptions ; and as its
proximity to Russian territory on the one hand
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