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
34 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. II.
lower and lower and the valleys wider as we
proceeded, till we soon found ourselves in open
undulating country, very richly cultivated and
thickly inhabited. The crops, now in full ear,
were extraordinarily heavy ; the millet especi-
ally, both the large and the small, being unusu-
ally heavy in the ear. The villages, too, were
all of considerable size and numerous. But
separate farmhouses or small hamlets were
seldom seen probably on account of the
brigandage, which was very rife all over
North Manchuria. We heard frequent tales
of carts being attacked on the road, and of
villages and even towns being pillaged. We
had, however, no personal experience of these
brigands, and this part of our journey, though
interesting as lying through a populous and
thriving district, was lacking in incident and
excitement.
Just beyond Petuna we again struck the
Sungari, here spread out in many channels to a
width of some ten miles. We crossed it by
a ferry, and on the opposite side we soon
entered the open rolling steppes of Mongolia.
The rich cultivation ceased, and with it the
villages, so that we now only passed an occa-
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