From Peking to PetersburgE. Arnold, 1899 - 300 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... carry you on to Taku , at the mouth of the Pei - ho River , the time from Shanghai being about four days . A railway will then take you in an hour and a half to Tientsin , where you can stay awhile , or you may simply change carriages ...
... carry you on to Taku , at the mouth of the Pei - ho River , the time from Shanghai being about four days . A railway will then take you in an hour and a half to Tientsin , where you can stay awhile , or you may simply change carriages ...
Pàgina 8
... carried in carts or on mules , and that you sleep at wayside inns that provide space and shelter only . It is , therefore , a great matter to choose a personal servant who can cook , and who will bustle things . 1 me . Many of the ...
... carried in carts or on mules , and that you sleep at wayside inns that provide space and shelter only . It is , therefore , a great matter to choose a personal servant who can cook , and who will bustle things . 1 me . Many of the ...
Pàgina 23
... carried by an arrangement with the Mongol headmen , and of the subsidy which the Tsung - li - Yamen pays to those headmen , one half , I am told , is provided by the Russian Government . M. Pavlov very properly advised me that the ...
... carried by an arrangement with the Mongol headmen , and of the subsidy which the Tsung - li - Yamen pays to those headmen , one half , I am told , is provided by the Russian Government . M. Pavlov very properly advised me that the ...
Pàgina 27
... carried all the European provisions and liquors that we expected to need until we arrived at Irkutsk , 1,450 miles distant , nor could we expect any change of transport animals till we should reach Kalgan ( or Chan - kia - kow ) , the ...
... carried all the European provisions and liquors that we expected to need until we arrived at Irkutsk , 1,450 miles distant , nor could we expect any change of transport animals till we should reach Kalgan ( or Chan - kia - kow ) , the ...
Pàgina 30
... carrying products carefully packed for long journeys . Besides these pack animals , there is large traffic in sheep , ponies , mules , and the like ; and there is the purely local business of such cities as Hsuan- hua - fu ( a centre of ...
... carrying products carefully packed for long journeys . Besides these pack animals , there is large traffic in sheep , ponies , mules , and the like ; and there is the purely local business of such cities as Hsuan- hua - fu ( a centre of ...
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