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0077 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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CHAPTER III.

BACK TO PEKING.

WE now turned our faces homewards. We had

reached the limit of our journey, and now had

to hurry back to the coast at Newchwang.

Mr. James went by a short cut to Kirin, while

Fulford and I, with the carts, travelled round

by Ninguta to meet a man whom we expected

with letters. On November II we left Hun-

chun, and now winter had regularly set in.

The thermometer was at zero or a degree or

two above or below it, and snow was beginning

to fall. At Ninguta we found the river, which

we had three weeks before crossed in a ferry,

and which was about one hundred and fifty

yards broad and with a by no means slow

current, now frozen over so completely that

we could run our heavily laden carts over on

the ice. Here we at last received letters, the

first batch since we had started on our journey