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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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now and then catching some man, who was out of step or
dressing, a tremendous punch on the nose! The men were
small—I should not say they averaged more than five feet
five inches or five feet six inches—but they were thick-set
and robust-looking, and as hard as all Cossacks seem to be.
We were close here to the Corean frontier, so there were
numbers of Coreans about. Many are settled in this valley
and seem to flourish and to be looked upon with favour by
the Russian authorities. They always appeared to me to be
rather a dull, insipid race, but they are said to be quiet and
orderly, and as the Russians want population to cultivate and
improve the land, so much of which is now merely run to waste,
they are welcomed to Russian territory to carry out the work
which the Russians themselves seem incapable of. Colonel
Sokolowski told us that his government were extremely anxious
to have all this Eastern Siberia colonized by Russians. They
would, and did, give every encouragement they could to
settlers ; they gave them free farming implements, horses, and
cattle, and brought them out from Russia free of expense ;
but the settlers had no energy or vigour ; they accepted all
that was given them, and set to work to produce enough to
live on, but nothing beyond. "If you English," said the
colonel, "had had this country, you would have made a mag-
nificent place of it by now ; but our Russians have none of
that colonizing spirit you have, and the country is only very
slowly opened up." Since that time, however, the Siberian
railway has been taken in hand. The Russians are waking
up in earnest, and a great future ought to lie before these
magnificently fertile tracts of Eastern Siberia. What the
Chinese colonists have been able to do on their side of the
border is a type of what the Russians could do also. And
with a railway to aid in its development, all these regions
about the Amur and its tributaries ought to equal the most
thriving parts of Canada.
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