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Pioneering Where The World Is Old - Leaves From A Manchuria Notebook (1917) (Hardcover)
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Pioneering Where The World Is Old - Leaves From A Manchuria Notebook (1917) (Hardcover)
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CHAPTER III MY FIRST CHANCE AT THE MANCHURIAN TRAIL AND HOW WE HAVE
AN ADVENTURE WITH THE RED-BEARDS I thought I had rediscovered one
of those truths which are revealed to savages and hid from
political economists. Stevenson. I Am sitting in the quaint little
office of our company in Harbin, the last important city of China
before one steps over into Siberia. I, myself, should find it hard
to think of facts and figures in an office which has for its
outlook a curved tile roof, with curious gargoyles and dragons
holding on to the ridgepole. I am sure that in such a place as this
I could not put a pin through my mind, sticking it down to business
and a desk. It all tempts my fancy away to fairies, goblins, and
suchlike folk. Fortunately for me, I am the wife of the business
man and not the business man himself, and my thoughts are free to
wander. At present my husband's work takes him all over these three
provinces that make up Manchuria and often I get my chance at the
long trails. Great Manchuria At once the hope and despair of China
With its potential possibilities it is the ' big chance' for the
man crowded out of the other eighteen provinces. Mongolia and
Manchuria are China's unsettled tracts, and are, between them, rich
in all resources. Therein lies her peril, for other nations are
determined to get hold of this border country. With each
disturbance in her internal affairs, the foreign powers have
wrested from her some new rights in these frontiers. Harbin, that I
sit looking out upon, is half-Russian; beyond the curved, tiled
roofs, I can see the gold-domed churches of the Russians; they, and
all that they signify, overshadow the city. From here, the Russians
spread north and south over the land. All of Manchuria above the
Amur River is now a part of Siberia, ...
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