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CHAPTER XIII. 
Russian Manchuria—The Coast Line— The Conquerors of Chiua— Tartar 
Bravery— Province of Liao-tung— Dangerous iSTavigation— Moutli 
of the Liao-ho-A Land of Pigs— Use of Cotton Seeds— Furriers 
Shops— Food Plants of Manchuria— Chinese Influence— Dagelet 
Island— Sea Bears— Bay of Sio-wu hu— Manchurian Bulls— The 
Manchus. 
Had Russia not cast a covetous eye upon Man- 
churia we should not have known much about that 
fertile tract of land, abounding in gold and silk, 
rich in coal and cotton, but almost neglected. 
Though Manchuria grows rice and tobacco in any 
quantity, little attention has as yet been paid to it. 
The harbour of Nicolaicvsk being in winter frozen 
over, and therefore useless at that period of the 
year, the Chinese have sold to Russia this remote 
but very desirable slice of Asia, including the 
coast from the mouth of the Amur as far south 
as Victoria Bay, where the country of the Koreans 
begins. 
