The next stop after Seoul was Pyongyang, which the Japanese called Heijo, and suddenly we were into the increasingly more rugged mountains of northern Korea. Finally, at Antung, we crossed the ice-choked Yalu River on a long steel bridge into the vast, flat, brown valleys of Manchuria.

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domesticated ungulates.

I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.

It was a promotion in status, the Pasha being next in rank to the Grand Vezir and therefore more important than a Muhassil; but this was of course no guarantee of better government.