The Archive · 1898

Another Interesting Feature

in recent journey was the manner in which Coreans are benefiting the Chinese in benefiting themselves. There' is rice grown in Manchuria as millet or wheat is grown, It is not. pretty in' colour nor, particularly' pleasant in flavour. Among the endless valleys with their numerous streams along the Yalu and the Hun rivers there are thousands of acres of bog of which the Chivese could make nothing: beyond pest. The land was considered worthless, Coreans came, got-liberty. to.do. their will-with these. bogs, and now have many hundreds of farms

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