. Corea, the hermit nation : I. Ancient and mediaeval history. II. Political and social Corea. III. Modern and recent history. gnals which, in the old days of the Three King-doms, had flashed upon the headlands to warn of danger seaward,Were now made a national seiwice. The system was perfected soas to converge at the capital, Sunto, and give notice of dangerfrom any point on the coast. By this means better protectionagainst the sea-rovers was seciu*ed. All this exil experience Math the piratical Japanese of the mid-dle ages has left its impress on the language of the this period,
. Corea, the hermit nation : I. Ancient and mediaeval history. II. Political and social Corea. III. Modern and recent history. gnals which, in the old days of the Three King-doms, had flashed upon the headlands to warn of danger seaward,Were now made a national seiwice. The system was perfected soas to converge at the capital, Sunto, and give notice of dangerfrom any point on the coast. By this means better protectionagainst the sea-rovers was seciu*ed. All this exil experience Math the piratical Japanese of the mid-dle ages has left its impress on the language of the this period, perhaps even long before it, date those words CATHAY, ZIPANGU, AND THE MONGOLS. 75 Of sinister omen of which we give but one or two examples whichhave the prefix wai (Japan) in them. A xcai-kol, a huge, fierce manof ^i-antic aspect, with a bad head, though perhaps with goodheartra kindof ogie, is a Japanese kol or creatui-e A destructive™d or typhoon is a Japanese wind. As western Christendom foieentm-ies uttered their fears of the Norse pirates :^^om the the Northmen, Good Lord, dehver us, so the Korai Two-Masted Curean Vessel (from a Pnotograph taken in 187 0- along the coast, for many generations offered up «- - P^^^^to their gods for protection against these ^^^f <°.° *^« ^f f^-^jThis chronic danger from Japanese P^^f• ^^^^ ^°%7Cho-sen endured for a period nearly as extended as that of Eng-land from the Northmen, is one of the causes that ^ave co^-ted io make the natives <h-ead the sea as a path for o^ ^ fin Corea we see the strange anomaly of a people more than semi-cinhzed whose wretched boats scarcely go beyond tide-watei. CHAPTEE XI. ISTEW CHO-SEN. It wiU be rememlDered that the first Chinese settler and civ-ilizer of Corea, Ivi Tsze, gave it the name of Cho-sen. Comingfrom violence and war, to a land of peace which lay eastward ofhis x3ld home, Ki Tsze selected for his new dwelling-place a nameat once expressive of its outward position a
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