Among the Celestials : vol.1 / Page 40 (Color Image)

0040	Among the Celestials : vol.1

AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. I.

quietly down the river, and sadly tempting

us to do the same, instead of laboriously

plodding our way through the forest up the

stream.

But we were now approaching the Ever-

White Mountain, and the interest of attaining

our goal would, we felt, repay all our exertions.

As we neared it, however, our difficulties

gradually increased. At Mao-erh-shan, on

the Yalu, two hundred and eighty miles from

Mukden, where we had expected to get all

ordinary supplies, we found practically nothing.

For a day or two before reaching this place,

we had been living upon very short rations,

and had been looking forward to eating a

good square meal of meat on our arrival.

But only some uneatable pork was to be had,

and we were obliged to content ourselves, in

the way of meat, with an egg curry, made of

salted eggs six months old, and only eatable

at all with the aid of a very strong flavouring

by way of disguise.

We here had to leave the valley of the Yalu

and plunge into the heart of the forest. Day

after day we ascended the ridges which run

down from the great mountain up one side

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