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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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Three weeks we remained here, paying off the mule-men
who had brought our baggage from Mukden, and arranging
for carts to continue our journey round Manchuria. The
chief attraction we found in the place was an arsenal recently
set up here entirely by Chinamen, and managed by them
alone, without any European guidance or supervision what-
ever. Here we found magazine rifles, gatling guns, and field-
guns being turned out in a very creditable fashion. We called
on the manager, who himself conducted us round the work-
shops. It was he who had started the place, and we were
fairly astonished to find such a really creditable establishment
in the heart of Manchuria, many hundreds of miles from the
coast, and in a country where there were neither railways nor
waterways, nor even good roads for the carriage of the heavy
and delicate machinery. Mr. Sung, the manager, had some-
thing more than mere imitative genius; he had also some
notion of invention and adapting. Having brought up an
initial plant of machinery, he had with that made more; and
he had himself invented a magazine rifle. Coal he obtained
in the neighbourhood, and a certain amount of iron too, but
most of the latter had to be imported. He was very civil to
us, and invited us to dinner, where we met some other officials
of the place.
Chinese dinners are of the most elaborate description, and
this one was no exception. Course after course was served
up, till we must have had between thirty and forty of them,
including such delicacies as sea-slugs, sharks' fins, and birds-
nest soup. The Chinese are remarkably good cooks, and,
though the dishes are often served in a way which is not very
palatable to Europeans, there is no doubt that the actual
cooking is excellent. There were, for instance, little suet
dumplings, so beautifully cooked and so light that they
almost melted in the mouth like jelly. Some of the dishes
of vegetables were also extremely good, and I especially
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