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0042 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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would attack even us pretty constantly, but it
was chiefly to the poor animals that they
directed their attention, and the wretched mules
were often covered with blood and driven wild
by their attacks. Such were the conditions of
travel in the deep recesses of the Manchurian
forests.

At night we would put up in the sable-
hunters' huts, met with every twelve or fifteen
miles, each the head-quarters of a party of
hunters who trap sables and also seek the
ginseng root, a plant upon which the Chinese
set great store for medicinal purposes. Such
huts were suitable enough for the small parties
who ordinarily inhabited them, but when our
large party came in addition they were crammed
to bursting. Yet we had to sleep in them, for
to sleep outside amongst the swarms of mos-
quitoes and in the damp of the forest was an
impossibility. We therefore packed ourselves
into the huts, and were sometimes so tightly
squeezed in the row on the kang, that we had
to lie heads and tails with the Chinamen, to fit
ourselves in at all. We had also to keep a
fire burning to raise smoke for the purpose of
driving off the mosquitoes; so the heat on a