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Citation Information
CHAP. t.] A FERTILE DISTRICT. 27
Three days later we were back at the place
where we had left our mules, and we ravenously
devoured some eggs which we managed to
secure there. It is said to be good to rise
from a meal with an appetite. In those days
we always rose from our meals with magnifi-
cent appetites.. To have no longer to carry a
load was unspeakable relief, and, happiness
being merely a relative quality, we felt tho-
roughly content on the following day as we
trudged along beside the mules, with no weight
on our backs to crush the spirit out of us.
Our intention now was to descend the
Sungari to Kirin, one of the principal towns
of Manchuria, and situated about three hundred
miles from the source of the river, near where
it enters the more open part of the country.
We had still many days of weary plodding
through the forest, climbing ridge after ridge,
crossing and recrossing tributary streams, one
of which we had to ford twenty-four times in
the course of a single march, and everywhere
waist-deep. But at length, and very suddenly,
we found ourselves clear of the forest, and in
a populous district of extraordinary fertility.
The soil all reclaimed from the forest—was
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