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 |
CHAP. 1.] ON THE MARCH. 15
the rain which was pattering down on the top
of me. What I felt particularly, too, at this
period was the want of milk and butter, for the
Chinese and Manchus never milk their cows,
and none was therefore procurable. They seem
to think it disgusting to drink milk. They will
eat rats and dogs and bird's-nest soup, but they
will not drink milk. And we greatly missed
this simple necessary, and eventually had to
take large quantities of oil with our food in its
place.
The heavy rain we were now experiencing
naturally swelled the rivers, and a dozen miles
from its source a stream would be unfordable.
When that is the case, the traveller has either
to cross in one of the native " dug-outs "—mere
logs of wood with a hollow scooped out down
the centre or wait several days till there is a
lull in the flood. This last is what we had to
do on more than one occasion, and in some
ways I was glad ; for it gave us a little rest
and time to overhaul and repair our kit. On
such occasions we put up in some farmhouse
near the river, and here out in the country,
away from the crowds of the towns, we could
examine John Chinaman at leisure. All the
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