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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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remain a standing evidence of what can be done by sheer
hard labour, without the aid of modern machinery and ap-
pliances. I fear though, that this is the only good purpose
they will serve; for, as I remarked before, the Chinese have
no notion of looking after these delicate pieces of mechanism
when they have got them.
At Hunchun was stationed the lieutenant-general in charge
of the frontier—a person of considerable importance—and on
the day after arrival we proceeded to call on him. He
received us after dark at his official residence in some state.
Every official residence in China has a number of gateways,
more or fewer of which are opened according to the rank of
the visitor. In our case every gateway was opened; the
courtyards were lined with soldiers, and the whole place
was lighted up with Chinese lanterns, which, as the residence
was newly built, and large and spacious, made the scene
very bright and picturesque. General I (pronounced Ee) was a
dignified, fine-looking old soldier, who had done much good
service in the Taeping rebellion. He was very polite and
courteous, treated us to some champagne, and talked to us
in an intelligent and interesting manner. Nobody can be
ruder than a common Chinaman, and nobody can be more
polite and refined than a Chinese gentleman when he wishes.
From Hunchun Mr. James had written to the commander
of the Russian post across the frontier, saying that we were
unprovided with passports to travel in Russian territory; but
that, if he would give us permission to do so, we should like
very much to visit Novo-kievsk. We then started off towards
Russian territory. At about ten miles from Hunchun, on the
summit of a hill, we saw a tall sort of obelisk with an
inscription on it, which we found to be the boundary-pillar
set up only a few months before by the Chinese imperial
commissioner sent in conjunction with a Russian commis-
sioner to define the frontier in this direction. Just beyond we
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