Yedo And Peking: a Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan And China...
Yedo And Peking: a Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan And China...
Robert Fortune
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One of the trunks, which I measured at three feet from the ground, was 12 feet in circumference. The country through which I was now passings although comparatively flat, was gradually getting a little higher and more undulating in its general appearance. It was the harvest-time for the summer crops of millet, Indian com, and oily grain, and the farmers were busy in all the fields gathering the crops into their bams. As I walked during the greater part of my journey, and did not always confine ...myself to the high road, many were the amusing adventures I met with by the way. Sometimes the simple villagers received me with a kind of vacant wondering 1 I i Chap, XXm. COUNTRY PEOPLE, ST9 stare, or scarcely condescended to look tip from the work with which they were engaged* At other times they gathered round me, and, when they found I was civilized enough to know a little of their language^ put all sorts of questions, com- mencing, for politenesSj with those in relation to my name, my age, and my country.
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