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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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in the country, away from the crowds of the towns, we could
examine John Chinaman at leisure. All the part we were now
in has been colonized by pure Chinese, who are taking the place
of the original Manchus. These latter were few in numbers,
and had been drafted off with their families to garrison the
towns of China proper, and now the Chinese immigrants from
the over-populated or famine-stricken districts of China were
flowing into these Manchurian valleys, clearing away the forest,
and bringing year by year more of it under cultivation. They
were, in fact, doing here exactly what our colonists have been
doing for so many years in Canada. The amount of work they
got through was, I thought, marvellous. At the first streak
of dawn they rose, had a good meal, and then set to at that
heart-breaking work, clearing land of the stumps of trees which
they had felled. Hour after hour they would work away,
hacking and hewing at these, and some of them digging up
the ground and preparing it for a crop, and at midday they
would stop and have another square meal; then return to
the same old wearing task till darkness set in, when they
would come trooping in for their evening meal. They were
for the most part strong, hard men, with enormous appetites.
Millet porridge, vegetable stews, and soups were their chief
food, which they ate out of bowls in huge quantities. Their
houses were often comfortable, well-built, and roomy, the roofs
being the especial feature, as they are in all Chinese houses, on
account of their great strength and solidity. The houses were
not always as clean as they might have been, but still were on
the whole far better homes than one would expect to find in
the backwoods of a colony. And I was a good deal struck
with the energetic spirit which these colonists showed in pushing
their way through the forests. A Chinaman is always known
to be industrious, but here was good tough vigour in addition.
At length we reached the Yalu, the natural boundary between
Corea and Manchuria. It was a noble river where we struck
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