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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
CHAP. Y.] WEARISOME TRAVELLING. 21
summer's night and the state of the atmosphere
inside may be imagined ! We, of course,
obtained no adequate rest, and that period of
our journey was irritating and dull.
Travelling on through the forest, we reached
one of the branches of the great Sungari river
—an affluent of the Amur, and, at its junction,
of even greater volume than that river. This
stream we now ascended, as it was said to flow
down from the Ever-White Mountain of which
we were in search ; but after two days' travelling
our mules were brought to a standstill by a bog
through which it was impossible to take any
animal. One man for carrying loads was all
we could secure, and so we had to reduce our
baggage to its minimum, and each one carry
his own, while the one porter carried such
supplies as we should be unable to obtain
ahead ; for though we heard of there being one
or two sable-hunters' huts, the owners of these
were said to be themselves almost starving for
want of food. Shouldering our loads therefore,
we pushed our way through the incessant bogs
which now filled up the valley, and at night
put up in the huts. This was the hardest piece
of work we had done, for we covered from
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