| Chapter | Page | |
| Introductory Chapter | [11] | |
| I. | First Impressions of Korea | [23] |
| II. | First Impressions of the Capital | [35] |
| III. | The Kur-dong | [49] |
| IV. | Seoul, the Korean Mecca | [59] |
| V. | The Sailing of the Sampan | [66] |
| VI. | On the River of Golden Sand | [71] |
| VII. | Views Afloat | [82] |
| VIII. | Natural Beauty—The Rapids | [98] |
| IX. | Korean Marriage Customs | [114] |
| X. | The Korean Pony—Korean Roads and Inns | [121] |
| XI. | Diamond Mountain Monasteries | [133] |
| XII. | Along the Coast | [150] |
| XIII. | Impending War—Excitement at Chemulpo | [177] |
| XIV. | Deported to Manchuria | [185] |
| XV. | A Manchurian Deluge—A Passenger Cart—An Accident | [192] |
| XVI. | Mukden and its Missions | [199] |
| XVII. | Chinese Troops on the March | [206] |
| XVIII. | Nagasaki—Wladivostok | [213] |
| XIX. | Korean Settlers in Siberia | [223] |
| XX. | The Trans-Siberian Railroad | [239] |
| XXI. | The King’s Oath—An Audience | [245] |
| XXII. | A Transition Stage | [261] |
| XXIII. | The Assassination of the Queen | [269] |
| XXIV. | Burial Customs | [283] |
| XXV. | Song-do: A Royal City | [292] |
| XXVI. | The Phyong-yang Battlefield | [301] |
| XXVII. | Northward Ho! | [320] |
| XXVIII. | Over the An-kil Yung Pass | [330] |
| XXIX. | Social Position of Women | [338] |
| XXX. | Exorcists and Dancing Women | [344] |
| XXXI. | The Hair-cropping Edict | [359] |
| XXXII. | The Reorganized Korean Government | [371] |
| XXXIII. | Education and Foreign Trade | [387] |
| XXXIV. | Dæmonism or Shamanism | [399] |
| XXXV. | Notes on Dæmonism Concluded | [409] |
| XXXVI. | Seoul in 1897 | [427] |
| XXXVII. | Last Words on Korea | [445] |
| Appendixes | [461] | |
| Appendix A.—Mission Statistics for Korea 1896. | ||
| Appendix B.—Direct Foreign Trade of Korea 1886-95. | ||
| Appendix C.—Return of Principal Articles of Export for the years 1896-95. | ||
| Appendix D.—Population of Treaty Ports. | ||
| Appendix E.—Treaty between Japan and Russia, with reply of H.E., the Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs. | ||
| Index | [475] |
List of Illustrations.
| Page | |
| Mrs. Bishop’s Traveling Party | [Frontispiece] |
| Harbor of Chemulpo | [Facing 30] |
| Gate of Old Fusan | [34] |
| Japanese Military Cemetery, Chemulpo | [Facing 38] |
| Turtle Stone | [48] |
| Gutter Shop, Seoul | [Facing 60] |
| The Author’s Sampan, Han River | [Facing 66] |
| Korean Peasants at Dinner | [81] |
| A Korean Lady | [120] |
| The Diamond Mountains | [Facing 140] |
| Tombstones of Abbots, Yu-Chöm Sa | [Facing 146] |
| Passenger Cart, Mukden | [198] |
| Temple of God of Literature, Mukden | [Facing 200] |
| Gate of Victory, Mukden | [Facing 208] |
| Chinese Soldiers | [Facing 210] |
| Wladivostok | [Facing 214] |
| Russian “Army,” Krasnoye Celo | [Facing 232] |
| Korean Settler’s House | [238] |
| Korean Throne | [Facing 248] |
| Summer Pavilion, or “Hall of Congratulations” | [Facing 254] |
| Royal Library, Kyeng-Pok Palace | [Facing 256] |
| Korean Gentleman in Court Dress | [260] |
| Place of the Queen’s Cremation | [268] |
| Chil-Sung Mon, Seven Star Gate | [300] |
| Altar at Tomb of Kit-ze | [Facing 318] |
| Russian Settler’s House | [Facing 320] |
| Upper Tai-Döng | [Facing 324] |
| Russian Officers, Hun-Chun | [Facing 330] |
| South Gate | [Facing 412] |
| Seoul and Palace Enclosure | [Facing 428] |
| The King of Korea | [Facing 430] |
| Korean Cadet Corps and Russian Drill Instructors | [434] |
| A Street in Seoul | [Facing 436] |
| Korean Policemen, Old and New | [444] |
GENERAL MAP OF KOREA AND NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES
The Edinburgh Geographical Institute John Bartholomew & Co.
Fleming H. Revell Company.
Korea and Her Neighbors
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
In the winter of 1894, when I was about to sail for Korea (to which some people erroneously give the name of “The Korea”), many interested friends hazarded guesses at its position,—the Equator, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea being among them, a hazy notion that it is in the Greek Archipelago cropping up frequently. It was curious that not one of these educated, and, in some cases, intelligent people came within 2,000 miles of its actual latitude and longitude!
In truth, there is something about this peninsula which has repelled investigation, and until lately, when the establishment of a monthly periodical, carefully edited, The Korean Repository, has stimulated research, the one authority of which all writers, with and without acknowledgment, have availed themselves, is the Introduction to Père Dallet’s Histoire de l’Église de Korée, a valuable treatise, many parts of which, however, are now obsolete.
If in this volume I present facts so elementary as to provoke the scornful comment, “Every schoolboy knows that,” I venture to remind my critics that the larger number of possible readers were educated when Korea was little more than “a geographical expression,” and had not the advantages of the modern schoolboy, whose “up-to-date” geographical text-books have been written since the treaties of 1883 opened the Hermit Nation to the world; and I will ask the minority to be patient with what may be to them “twice-told tales” for the sake of the majority, specially in this introduction, which is intended to give something of lucidity to the chapters which follow.