After a day's march tinder stob 0 rly ening resting place. Thix is what would be found, Nearly every village possesses un inn, and the the varying amo [traveller hax to good. The best room consists of four walls, thatched roof and a door (though this latter is not essential). from level, and there is the kang,"
ese bed-place, on which camp-beds can be erected. Chains and a can frequently be obtained, innkeeper may have to them frum his There are always windows covered with filthy paper broken away in a thousand places, but rarely ix glass to be met ith, except per ind Chefoo, and many wuted with vines from every wine producing country. More land is still frequently acquired in the valley behind and planted in the sam the price of land has now gone riy: considerably. Both black and white grapes are grown, loxera hho. attacked them frou time to time, bnt never to any disastrous extent. The grapes are brought in to the establish. ment in the town, and there the wine is made and stored in special casks eapalle (the largest) of holding ax moh as 15,000 litres (18,000 bwttlex of. wine), These casks were constructed in Austra in sections, and s0 shipped to Chef, where they were put together in the cellars. These cellars, begun four years ago, took two years to complete, and built below the level of the sea: they are lined with conerete, ws it wax found that otherwise they were being con stantly flooded. They are very exten: sive, and already hold a great number casks full of wine; the mame and of the latter being inscribed side every cask.
Discomforts, however, there would be in plenty, The traveller in Chi ods to sheathe his heart all the triple] brass of ancient mariners, comparatively as these which Mr. Garnett followed, Here are some vivid pictures: from Mr. Garnett's pen of what the traveller may Though the roads are always are se broken as to be passable for carts, mules wheelbarrows can perhaps get along The roads in n Shantung er the paths or roads are practical ly impassable, being several feet deep in the t ible mind, and even this, he may still be brought to a standstill: by some stream which has become s swol-
Jen as tobe unfordable. When there ix w bridge over a stream it is in the joi lei by the carts broken: through in places, or else bad state of repair that it would be dangerous, use it, Twas mile, wi had to cross a half-frozen stream hundred When Twas way werass. it quarter did not exist. the mule refused to. bac For a long tine and when it the edge and a quotation from the classics, is, perlinges, needless to say that the dirt of the is usually rible, and is plenty of ver The questi difficult is terrified of naming a sum than the yuest would perhaps jay if to hiuwelf to decide; but the right price seems tw be about 20 a Ieelging, if the travellers consume so fair mumber of ces and have a fire lighted for boiling their water." Whether sch a bill can be considered or wot involves many the value of an article to its intrinsic worth the attitude of the natives, which was friendly through Mr. Garnett's whole tr hat curiosity this was ud along the Grand Canal, where forners can be but rary seen. Their inn room, where they will finger everything, if the er does not lose—whereat, we are told, there is a stall stampede, "Though it ix ten this work began, no wine pt on the market for another two years. This market is to be the China coast, Bam von Babe sould not say what price the wine was to he sold at, but, considering that the capital will have been locke z]up for twelve years the sale price will doubtless not be a low one."
Incidentally Mr. Garnett. notices that Chefoo harbour urgently needs a ule and a breakwater, ax in winter cargo can only be worked two out three days owing to the exposed conlition of the anchorage, This certainly scours to be a case for the wine growers to push forward, Chefoo Mr. Garnett continu! through Weihaiwei to Wa Ow the rond they had an amusing example of the possibility of losing face at a village called Schatmian, where fley Junched. The inn-keeper had preparxd some tea for tis, and wanted 0 iffer it to us. The boy, replied that we did not d it inthe idle of the day. Aw the i the bay anid: Well, you may offer itself, Imt T tell you these fore n't drink it, and if they refuse will Jose face." Needless to say the tea wax lat Mfered. Ww ang, which thods of cunveyance, sedan chair, mule litter and two wheeled cart. Of these the fitter is evidently best. The motion, when the mules keep step, resembles the gentle swinging of a hamunck; the mules are out of step, freynently the case, one is pulled backwards and forwards until one's body and soul almost part we-wheeled carts are ant of torture, Mr. Gar izinally intended to journey ins country, about Tai er the mountains but the two-wheeled carts
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