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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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said, there were gold-mines, which, however, it was only per-
missible for government to work, as the Chinese think that
indiscriminate gold-mining only leads to fighting and quar-
relling and trouble, and the emperor therefore forbids it to
his subjects entirely. We crossed numerous side streams, and
these, as well as the Hurka itself, swarm with fish, mostly
salmon. The natives form dams across the side streams, and
catch them in hundreds. So at this time, what with pheasants,
ducks, geese, and salmon, we were living very comfortably,
and making up for our privations in the forests of the White
Mountain.
As we neared Ninguta the valley opened up into a wide
plain, which was well cultivated and populated, and on
October 26 we reached Ninguta, a flourishing place of nearly
twenty thousand inhabitants. Here we found a telegraph
station just opened. The Chinese attach considerable impor-
tance to this frontier, touching as it does on Russian territory,
and the construction of this telegraph line was one of the
signs of the interest they took in it. The line was well and
stoutly constructed under the supervision of a Danish gentle-
man. But the office was manned entirely by Chinese, and
the language in use was English. Every clerk spoke English,
and it was a pleasure to us to meet any one who spoke
our native tongue.
We halted here a couple of days, and then started for
Hunchun, a garrison post of some importance, situated on
the extreme frontier, and just at the point where Russian,
Chinese, and Corean territory meet. Winter was creeping
on apace now. The thermometer on the morning we left
Ninguta was at 11° Fahrenheit, so we had to push on hard
to get to our furthest destination, which we hoped might be
on the sea, at the Russian port just beyond Hunchun, and
then back to our original starting-point at Newchwang, before
the severest part of the Manchurian winter overtook us. The
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