Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar - Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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enterprising girl--Sleeping in a carriage--Arrival at Verkne
Udinsk--Walking in the market place--Stories of Siberian robbers--An enterprising murderer--Gold and iron mines on the Selenga CHAPTER XXVI. Crossing a river on the ice--A dangerous situation--Dining on soup and caviar--Caravans of tea--The rights of the road--How the drivers treat each other--Selenginsk--An old exile--Troubled by the nose--Lodged by the police--A housekeeper in undress--An amateur concert--Troitskosavsk and Kiachta--Crossing the frontier--Visiting the Chinese governor CHAPTER XXVII. In the Chinese empire--A city without a woman--A Chinese court of justice--Five interpretations--Chinese and Russian methods of tea making--A Chinese temple--Sculpture in sand stone--The gods and the Celestials--The Chinese idea of beauty--The houses in Maimaichin--Chinese dogs--Bartering with the merchants--The Chinese ideas of honesty--How they entertained us--The Abacus CHAPTER XXVIII. Russian feast days--A curious dinner custom--Novel separation of the sexes--The wealth of Kiachta--The extent of the tea trade--Dodging the custom house--Foreign residents of Kiachta--Fifteen dogs in one |
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