EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV 



Korean Farmers' Houses. 



The houses are rather strongly built of stones set in mud ; the roof is ot 

 thatch held down by a lacing of ropes over which a gourd vine usually 

 clambers. The interior arrangement is simple, and tliere is always a square 

 window. 



(From a photograph by P. L. Jouy in the U. S. National Sluseum.) 



