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CHAPTER VIII. 



LOO-CHOO KOBEA JAPAN. 



Loo-Ckoo Mandarins Visit a Missionary Gardens of the Temples- 

 Burial-ground Tombs Loo-Chooan females Sheudi, the 

 capital Palace of the Viceroy State of religion Acquainted 

 with Arms Language Money Medicine Korea Physical 

 appearance of the Natives Costume Moral Character Arms 

 Boats Punishments An Anecdote Beacon-fires Island of 

 Q-uelpart Plants Stone Images Vegetation Scenery 

 Birds Fishes Insects Habits of Spiders Molluscous Animals 

 Radiata Sponges Sama-Sana Scenery Vegetation In- 

 sects An Earthquake Koumi Scenery Birds Beetles 

 Grasshoppers Japan Physical appearance of the Japanese 

 Costume -Weapons Shells Volcanic Archipelago Inhabitants. 



ON the 22nd of August, 1845, in company with Mr. 

 Corbett, of the Royalist, I landed at some distance from 

 our anchorage in Napa-Kiang harbour, on the other side 

 of the village of Po-tsang, (or Pot-soong, as Beechey and 

 others write it,) a small straggling hamlet full of temples, 

 tombs, banyan trees, and salt-pans, with a neat, well- 

 built little bridge, and a very long causeway. We were 

 received on the beach by a large concourse of the 

 natives, and as soon as we had disembarked, a venerable 

 and good-natured mandarin of the second class, took us 

 by the hand, and kindly led us towards the village. He 

 spoke to us in broken English, asking us how we did ; 



