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The people also that dwell about the riuer, are called Vuogolici and Vgritzschi. From the Castle of Obea, ascending by the riuer of Oby, vnto the riuer Irtische, into the which Sossa entereth, is three moneths iourney. In these places are two Castles named Ierom and Tumen, kept by certaine Lords called Knesi Iuhorski, being tributaries to the great Duke of Moscouia, as they say.
I had to swear, and cross my heart, and give endless words of honor, all that for a position of a traffic man, like the one in Tumen. Very selfish, but understandable. It was late, when she left me. "Alex," she said on the threshold, "Please don't talk. Do not write, please! You'll have time to finish your diary, and write even a series of books on the subject afterwards. Maybe I'll help you even.
How such a lot of merchandise of nearly every kind under the Siberian sun could find either buyer or seller, it is difficult to imagine. The market-place was densely thronged, but there seemed to be very little traffic in progress. The population of Tumen is about twenty thousand, and said to be rapidly increasing. The town is prosperous, as its many new and well-built houses bear witness.
As a result, two agreements were concluded in 1909 one respecting the boundary question, the Tumen Kiang Agreement, and the other respecting railways and mines whereby Japan obtained many new and valuable privileges and concessions, such as the extension of the Kirin-Changchun Railway to the Korean frontier, the option on the Hsinminfu-Fakumen line, and the working of the Fushun and Yentai mines, while in return China obtained a bare recognition of existing rights, namely the boundary between China and Korea and the jurisdiction over the Koreans in the Yenchi region.
When several persons are engaged in this rasping process a curious sound is produced. There are many Tartars living on the steppe, but we saw very little of them, as our changes were made at the Russian villages. Before the reign of Catherine II. there was but a small population between Tumen and Tomsk, and the road was more a fiction than a fact.
"If you report," I heard a voice, "You won't be able to count your bones." That was really too much! All they forgot to take was a handkerchief, in which I had put some money. With that I had to reach Tumen and live there! Then I turned left and went by small streets toward the depot from which I thought trains were running to Tumen. Where this Tumen was I really did not realize.
These carpets were made by hand in the villages around Tumen, their material being goat's hair. From their appearance I judged that a coarse cloth was "looped" full of thread, which was afterward cut to a plush surface. Some of the figures were quite pretty.
"Yes, sir." "Now, what is it?" "I come from Tumen, Dr. Botkin. I have brought you a letter from your friends." A grimace passed over his face, and he stared at me with suspicion. "Tumen? Who are you?" "I hardly think my name would tell you anything, doctor. Here is the letter." He stopped my movement: "Please, please, not here. Let's go in. Don't be so sure of this place."
This would seem to be conclusive proof that Koreans in that region are not within the provisions of the treaty of 1915 but are still governed by the Tumen Kiang Agreement. The question is something more than one of academic or even merely judicial importance.
In Tumen, you know I came to Syvorotka with certain purposes: you described them well in your diary, so well that I had to put my censorship on them, I did not suspect Syvorotka was you...." I made an impatient movement. "Again your fairy tale?" "Alex!" she exclaimed, "I conjure you to believe me! Can't you see? Get me to tell you the truth when I am so happy as now! I could not lie to you!
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