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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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round. On one occasion a lady did not do so, and was sent
off at a tangent, skimming gracefully along over the ice in
one direction, while the boat went off thirty miles an hour in
another! Any other form of yachting is tame in comparison
with this ice-boat sailing, and its only disadvantage is the
cold. Flying through the air with the thermometer not far
off zero is very cold work, and necessitates good heavy furs.
During my stay in Tientsin, the Russian New Year fell,
and Mr. Brenan took me a round of visits to the Russian
consul and the Russian merchants in the place. With them
the New Year is observed with great ceremony. At each
house we found substantial refreshment laid out on a side-
table, and were pressed to drink good luck to the coming year
in champagne. The Russians in Tientsin are mostly tea-
merchants, and some of them are extremely rich, and live in
very luxuriously furnished houses. They all of them had that
warm, hearty, cordial manner which is the characteristic of
Russians.
After this I went on to Peking, and was entertained in
the British Legation, first by Mr. Walter Hillier, then Chinese
Secretary, now Consul-General in Corea, and afterwards by
Sir John and Lady Walsham. I trespassed far too long on
their hospitality, but they were so kind in their reception of
me, and it was such a relief to be settled in comfortable home-
like surroundings after the rough life I had been leading, that
I was unable to break myself away till the spring had come
on, and so I was with them for nearly three months. And
here, of course, I learnt a great deal about the Chinese which
I should certainly never have been able to learn by myself.
Mr. Hillier was known to be a fine Chinese scholar, and to
have a very intimate knowledge of the Chinese. Conversations
with him were therefore especially interesting, and in my
subsequent journeys I was able to profit much by the advice
he gave me.
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