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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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blankets or clothing of any description, and stand out quite
bare all night in a cold so great that I have even seen the
hoar frost lying thick on an animal's back in the morning.
But they are fed enormously while they are in work. They
are given in the day as much as sixteen pounds of grain,
besides bran and chopped millet-stalks. When they are not
at work they are eating, and the eating and the work
together occupy so much time that I could never discover
when they slept. The programme for these animals was to
start an hour or two before daybreak in the morning. At
midday, or somewhat before, they would halt, and the instant
they had stopped they would be put to a trough, which would
then be piled up with a feed of barley or millet mixed up with
bran and chopped millet-stalks or straw. This and watering
would occupy them the greater part of the two hours' halt.
They would then start off again for the rest of the day's
journey, and halt for the night at dusk. Immediately on
arrival they would be given another of these enormous feeds,
and in the middle of the night a third. Then the next
morning they would be off again before daylight. Grain, of
course, was very cheap and plentiful, but in no other part of
Asia have I seen animals so well fed as in Manchuria, and
the result was that their owners could get the fullest amount
of work out of them, so that two animals would draw their
twelve hundred pounds of goods for thirty miles a day without
any difficulty.
The country we passed through was very pretty even in
winter, and must have been really beautiful in summer. It
was undulating, well covered with trees, and intersected with
many little streams and rivers. At this season it was all under
snow, but we saw one morning one of the most perfectly lovely
sights I have ever seen. I have never seen a similar sight,
either before or since. It was a frozen mist. As the sun
rose we found the whole air glittering with brilliant particles
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