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0029 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000297
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farmhouses, not unlike those which one sees in
England. We travelled in carts—the small
carts so often described in books on China—
with two mules each, driven tandem, the
baggage piled up inside and behind, and our-
selves seated at the base of the shafts alongside
the drivers, with our legs dangling over the
side. In the summer months, when the roads
are soft and muddy, the pace is not rapid, and
the traveller can jump off, walk alongside, and
jump on again as he likes. But in the winter,
when the roads are frozen and worn down
by the heavy traffic almost as smooth as an
asphalte roadway, these carts trundle along at
a good five or six miles an hour, and with a
thousand or twelve hundred pounds of goods
will do their thirty miles a day without any
difficulty.

Everywhere along the road are found inns
where accommodation for man and beast can
be obtained. The first plunge from European
civilization—which in our case was represented
by the house of Mr. Allen, the British Consul
at Newchwang — into a Chinese inn is not
agreeable, and the dirt inside and out seems
insupportable. But on settling down to the