Korea; its history, its people, and its commerce . oreans make a famous paper, which is used inthe Palaces of the Emperor. It is cultivated inKang-won, Ham-kyong, and Pyong-an Provinces. The Korean is omnivorous. Birds of the air,beasts of the field, and fish from the sea, nothingcomes amiss to his palate. Dog-meat is in greatrequest at certain seasons; pork and beef with theblood undrained from the carcase, fowls and game— birds cooked with the lights, giblets, head, andclaws intact, fish, sun-dried and highly malodorous,all are acceptable to him. Cooking is not alwaysnecessary; a species of
Korea; its history, its people, and its commerce . oreans make a famous paper, which is used inthe Palaces of the Emperor. It is cultivated inKang-won, Ham-kyong, and Pyong-an Provinces. The Korean is omnivorous. Birds of the air,beasts of the field, and fish from the sea, nothingcomes amiss to his palate. Dog-meat is in greatrequest at certain seasons; pork and beef with theblood undrained from the carcase, fowls and game— birds cooked with the lights, giblets, head, andclaws intact, fish, sun-dried and highly malodorous,all are acceptable to him. Cooking is not alwaysnecessary; a species of small fish is preferred raw,dipped into some piquant sauce. Other daintiesare dried sea-weed, shrimps, vermicelli, made bythe women from buckwheat flour and white of egg,pine seeds, lily bulbs, honey-water, wheat, barley,millet, rice, maize, wild potatoes, and all vegetablesof Western and Eastern gardens; and this by nomeans exhausts the list. Their excesses make them martyrs to indigestion. 64 ? ?/- ^^^^* ^ :^Li^^ !ii^^ .^ti f :r->;i. KOREAN NATIVES BUILDING HOUSES CHAPTER VII KOREAN SCENERY THE world of politics in Seoul had become ofa sudden so profoundly dull, that, ignoringthe advice of the weather-wise inhabitantsof the capital, I packed my kit, and hiring ponies,interpreters, and servants, moved from the chiefwalled city of the Empire into the wild regions ofthe interior. My journey lay towards Tong-ko-kai, the German mines, several days journey fromSeoul. Life, in the capital, is not destitute of thatmonotony which characterises the Land of the Morn-ing Radiance. But beyond the precincts of theImperial Palaces, out of sight and hearing of thecountless little coteries of Europeans, the contrastbetween the moving, soft-robed, gentle masses ofpeople who congregate within her gates, and themountain reaches and valleys of the open countryis refreshing. For the moment the pleasure of suchan experience ranks high among the joys which lifeholds. Save in the first few
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