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deep water, and I had great difficulty in finding a single 

 bank with twelve fathoms on it, twenty and more being 

 the general depth. Picked up three or four couple of 

 snipe, and saw some teal. 



24iA. — Mackau group, off the south-west coast of 

 Korea. I got six books from a Korean last night ; he 

 paddled quietly alongside after dark; his great idea seemed 

 to be rum ; I gave him some cloth for the books, and a 

 little rum, over which he smacked his lips, and chuckled. 

 Shot a Japanese teal, and saw two golden plover. A 

 few days since I saw some Korean women in their fields ; 

 they didn't know I was so near ; but I had come up by 

 myself from the beach, to the sharp ridge which over- 

 looked them, and lying well concealed amongst the 

 rocks, I watched them with my telescope. They were 

 big women; but they appear larger than they really 

 are, on account of the enormous baggy trousers they 

 wear, and which are always white. Besides these 

 baggy breeches, they wear a short jacket, buttoned in 

 front. The few Korean females I have been near are, 

 without exception, the very ugliest of their sex I have 

 ever seen in any part of the world. 



To-day, when using the theodolite, two inquisitive 

 crows {Corvusjaponicus without doubt) came to see what 

 I was doing. First they carefully examined the instru- 



