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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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road was terribly bad, again crossing over ridges fifteen
hundred to two thousand feet in height, passing over heavy
bogs and morasses, and through forests of pine, birch, and oak.
On November 5 we struck the Tumen river, which we had
expected to find a fine stream, like the Sungari near Kirin;
but it proved to be only about a hundred yards wide, and
not deep enough to cover the rocks and boulders, which
showed up everywhere. No doubt it is fuller in the summer,
but it can at no season be navigable, as it was at one time
supposed to be.
Hunchun we found to be simply a garrison town. There
were here about three thousand troops, and the small town
there was served for little else than to supply their wants. But
we discovered in it a number of European articles which had
been imported from the Russian station close by. Clocks,
sweets, soap, canned fruits, and many other luxuries were to
be obtained here, and at a very reasonable price. We bought
a can of Singapore pineapples for a shilling.
Hunchun is situated in a plain at the foot of some low
hills, and round it in the direction of the Russians—here
only ten miles distant—are some strong forts mounted with
heavy Krupp guns. I was sufficiently astonished to see these
Krupp guns at Sansing, to which place they could have been
brought from Kirin by water, and between Kirin and the
coast there are only comparatively low hills; but how the
Chinese could possibly have managed to drag these enormous
guns over the range upon range which separate Hunchun
from Kirin, and through all the morasses and forests we had
seen on the way, puzzled me much. Mr. James found that they
had placed the guns on gigantic sledges, and then brought them
over in the depth of winter, when the ground and bogs and
everything else were frozen hard. Yet even then they must
have had extraordinary difficulty for in winter in these parts
the snowfall is very heavy; and these guns at Hunchun
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