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Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
天の間で : vol.1 |
56 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. III.
The traffic in this winter season was immense.
I counted in a single day's march over eight
hundred carts, all heavily laden and drawn by
teams of at least two and many of them nine
animals, ponies or mules. A main road in
Manchuria in the winter is a busy scene, and
these strings of carts rolling along on the frosty
morning, with the jingling bells of the teams,
and the drivers shouting at their animals, were
signs of animation which we had hardly ex-
pected to see after our first experience on the
heavy, muddy roads in the summer. The inns
were numerous and crowded, and as a string of
carts passed by each, men would come running
out, proclaiming the advantages of their par-
ticular hostelry, and trying to persuade the
carters to come in. Then, when the carts
stopped, the inn men would bustle about,
fetching grain and fodder for the animals and
food for the men, and there was as much
life and activity as in a country town in Eng-
land on market day. I remarked, too, how
very well the carters fed their animals. These
Manchurian, or rather Mongolian, ponies and
mules are never allowed blankets or clothing of
any description, and stand out quite bare all
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