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
CHAP. II.] N I NGUTA. 43
and salmon, we were living luxuriously enough
to make up for our privations in the forests of
the White Mountain.
As we neared Ninguta the valley opened up
into a wide plain, which was well cultivated
and populated, and on October 26 we reached
Ninguta, a flourishing place of nearly twenty
thousand inhabitants. Here we found a tele-
graph station just opened. The Chinese
attach considerable importance to this frontier,
touching as it does on Russian territory, and
the construction of this telegraph line was one
of the signs of the interest they took in it.
The line was well and stoutly constructed
under the supervision of a Danish gentleman.
But the office was manned entirely by Chinese,
and the language in use was English. Every
clerk spoke English, and it was a pleasure to
us to meet any one who spoke our native
tongue.
We halted here a couple of days, and then
started for Hunchun, a garrison post of some
importance, situated on the extreme frontier,
and just at the point where Russian, Chinese,
and Corean territory meet. Winter was
creeping on apace now. The thermometer
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