IIIFカラー高解像度
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
| CHAP. i.] THE YALU. | 17 |
porridge, vegetable stews, and soups were their
chief food, which they ate out of bowls in huge
quantities. Their houses were often com-
fortable, well-built, and roomy, though not
always as clean as they might have been, but
still on the whole far better homes than one
would expect to find in the backwoods of a
colony. And I was struck with the energetic
spirit which these colonists showed in pushing
their way through the forests. A Chinaman
is always known to be industrious, but here
was good tough vigour in addition.
At length we reached the Yalu, the natural
boundary between Corea and Manchuria. It
was a noble river where we struck it three
hundred yards or so broad, and ten to fifteen
feet deep. Its sides were covered down to
the water's edge with forests, and at intervals,
where the ground was flatter, were patches of
cultivation and a few farmhouses, or meadows
covered with flowers of every description
often with masses of stately lilies, some
specimens of which measured six inches
across, or with waving sheets of purple irises
and columbines. Then gliding noiselessly
across the scene would come a raft drifting
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