The Long White Mountain, Or, A Journey in Manchuria: With Some Account of the History, People, Administration and Religion of that CountryAccount by H.E.M. James of the exploration of China by James, Francis Younghusband, and Harry English Fulford in 1885-1886. During his service in the Indian Civil Service from 1865 to 1900, James traveled to China in 1885 with Younghusband and Fulford to explore Manchuria and the Changbai Mountains. The account includes much detail on the local peoples and customs, and constitutes an important source of historical information on the region. Also included are appendices on opium, political corruption, and earlier expeditions. |
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Page 28 - French literature of the latter part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries.
Page 70 - If the said barbarian eye throws in private letters, I the governor, will not at all receive or look at them. With regard to the barbarian factory of the company without the walls of the city, it is a place of temporary residence for barbarians coming to Canton to trade. They are permitted only to eat, sleep, buy and sell in the factories. They are not permitted to bring up wives and daughters ; nor are they permitted to go out to ramble about.
Page 77 - ... opium, we had no right to complain ; but when the government, finding, that by just and lawful means, they could not carry out their prohibition, resorted to measures unjust and unlawful, confined our innocent countrymen, and insulted the Sovereign in the person of her representative, then he thought, the time had arrived when it was fit that we should interfere.
Page 84 - He shall not be called upon to perform any ceremony derogatory to him as representing the Sovereign of an independent nation on a footing of equality with that of China.
Page 18 - Portuguese subjects, who, without carrying merchandise, should like to go to the interior of China must have passports issued by their consuls and countersigned by the local authorities. The bearer of the passport must produce the same when demanded ; and the passport not being irregular, he will be allowed to proceed and no opposition shall be offered, especially to his hiring persons or vessels for the carriage of his baggage or merchandise.
Page 429 - ... bringing. The journey, on account of the autumn rains, took us fifteen days. I confess that, in comparison 'with these, former fatigues appeared as child's play. You must cut and drag trees, light fires, necessary against the cold and the tiger, prepare your victuals in wind and rain, and all this in the midst of a swarm of mosquitoes and gad-flies, who do not suspend their attacks until about ten or twelve o'clock in the evening. Water and wood were in abundance during the first days of the...
Page 29 - She disappeared, and he, embarking in a small boat, floated with the river stream. In the neighborhood of a place where peoples of three surnames were at war, he disembarked, and was breaking off willow branches, when one of the warriors, coming to draw water, saw him. Amazed at his strange appearance, the warrior hastily retired to inform the people of the remarkable man he had seen. The curious people went to the bank and asked his name and surname, to whom he replied: I am the son of the heavenly...
Page 433 - Its flesh, perfectly white and very tender, make me prefer it to all other fresh-water fish. Entirely cartilaginous, with the exception of three small bones in the neck, it has lips formed like those of a shark, the upper protruding much over the lower. Like the shark, it turns itself to seize its prey or bite the hook ; and, like it, swims slowly and clumsily. The cartilage and bones are the most esteemed portions of the fish, and sell at San-sim for one and a-half tael of silver the pound. The...
Page 413 - Company, and the firm friendship, and constant commercial intercourse which has so long subsisted between the two nations, never placed any reliance on the calumnious imputations put forward by the Górkha raja'.
Page 230 - Newchang and went north to Mukden. Thence they went due east up the beautiful and well-wooded valley of the Hun. This is a particularly rich region, and is being rapidly colonized. The first day Mr. James began to collect he found no less than five kinds of lilies of the valley, and it was common to see whole hill-sides covered with masses of that flcwer.