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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1882. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... people, bat the missioners naturally tell more of the Corean character. Though by the national policy it has been, up to our own days, interdicted ground for every foreigner, the priests, who have given the Corea nearly a century of Christianity, have made it, however forbidden, a familiar land. It is the country whose very name, as Mgr. Berneux said, sends a thrill through every fibre of the apostolic heart. It is the land of martyrs. The physical character of the country has been its best defence against the stranger. Andrew Kim, the Corean priest and martyr, describes its northern frontier as a rampart of white mountains topped by a black barrier of forest. A similar mountain wall extends down the eastern coast, yet there are some fine ports towards the Sea of Japan. The south coast and the west, which is only two days' steam or about four days' sailing distance from Shanghai, is the usual ground for landing; but reef's, shoals, and islands render these coasts almost inaccessible. The Corea has long encouraged its neighbours in the belief that the little kingdom is barren. Any search for precious metals is forbidden, and no mining is allowed, except for Government use; but Ernest Oppert states his decided conviction that no other country of the whole Asiatic continent approaches it in mineral wealth. And though the northern winter is excessively severe, the climate at other seasons brings forth, under little or no cultivation, the produce of southern Europe as well as of Asia. The surface of the country has an incredible appearance of having been tossed into hilly waves, close and pointed. The French priest's remark, that it is like the sea under a gale, is borne out by the coast and river views of the traveller to the "Forbidden Land." He estimates its popul...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781154408829
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 246
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1154408825
  • Publisher Date: 15 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 445 gr


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