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CHAPTER II.

NORTHERN MANCHURIA.

ON September 3, after a three weeks' rest, we

set out once more on our travels, heading this

:time towards Tsi-tsi-har. The roads were to

be comparatively level and good, so we were

able to return to the use of carts, and travel

over twenty-five miles or more daily. But the

season was bad, rain had been falling constantly,

and in consequence the roads of course none

of them metalled were simply quagmires.

Even just outside Kirin we stuck hopelessly

for a couple of hours in a mass of mud, and

delays more or less lengthy were constant.

But we had three mules to each cart, and

when one cart was badly stuck we harnessed

on a team from another to help, and in this

way managed to get over more ground each

day than the state of the roads would have led

one to believe possible. The hills became

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