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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE EVER-WHITE MOUNTAIN.
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My first journey to Dharmsala—Robert Shaw—Preparations for an extended
journey—Mr. H. E. M. James—Decision to go to Manchuria—Arrival at
Newchwang—"The Ever-White Mountain"—To Mukden—Chinese in-
quisitiveness—Tomb of Nurhaden—To the Yalu River—Want of milk and
butter—Industry of Chinese colonists—We enter the great forest—Mosquitoes
—Sable hunters—The Sungari River—Its sources—I reach the summit of
the "Ever-White Mountain"—Kirin—Chinese dinners—Chinese manners 1
CHAPTER II.
MANCHURIA TO PEKING.
Start for Tsi-tsi-har—The Sungari again—Luxury of milk and cream—The
Mongolian and Chinese frontier—Return to cultivation—Hulan—Torturing
of Père Conraux—Pei-lin-tzu—A pattern mission station—Sansing—A
Chinese fort and guns—Ninguta—Chinese carts and carters—The Russian
frontier—Hunchun—Transport of Krupp guns—General I—A Russian
frontier post — Cossacks — Colonel Sokolowski — Russian hospitality —
Novo-kievsk—The Corean frontier—England and Russia ... ... 22
CHAPTER III.
BACK TO PEKING.
We turn our faces homewards—Kirin—Hsiao Pa-chia-tzu—The Roman
Catholic mission—To Mukden—14° below zero—Winter traffic—Mongolian
ponies—A frozen mist—The Scottish mission at Mukden—Its medical
work—Return to Newchwang—My indebtedness to Mr. James—Remarks
on Manchuria—Its products and people—Christmas Day in a Chinese inn
— Shan-hai-kuan — The Great Wall of China — Compared with the
Pyramids — Kaiping — A procession of corpses — British navvies — The
Kaiping coal-mine—Mr. Kinder—How he constructed his locomotives—
The first Chinese railway—Native superstitions and prejudices—Feng-shui
—Tientsin—Ice-boat sailing—New Year's visits—Peking ... ... 42
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