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A F8RTHJS VA^Y IN THE VICINITY O* THE CAPITA!, CITY OF SEOUI, 



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extends throughout the entire length of the penfnsSla mountain s and scantily clad hills 



he like him because he must, but way 

 down in his stomach he no like Japanese 

 at all. 



NO ACCOUNTING FOR KOREAN TASTES 



Our expedition landed at Chon Chin 

 or beshin, as the Japanese call a little vil- 

 lage on the northeast coast about 150 

 miles south of Vladivostok. 



The first part of our journey on an 

 interesting little railway, up which we 

 were pushed on hand-cars, was along- the 

 scacoast, where the native fishermen were 

 hanging in great nets full of "men-tai." 

 This fish is used as a basis for a favorite 

 dish of the northern Koreans, called 

 kimshi, which is made from onions and 

 garlic a whitish doughy substance, a 

 P cnt,ful suppl |y of 'red pepper, and a 

 little water A fish which has reached 

 an advanced stage of decomposition is 

 added and the mess placed to one side to 

 npen. After several days it is generally 



considered to be "high" enough for the 

 most discriminating epicure. 



From the old walled town of Puryon 

 we were pushed up the railway to Mur- 

 yantei and spent the night there in a 

 Korean "hotel." It was my first experi- 

 ence and one which I shall never Wet 

 tor the ordinary house is inhabited by an 

 extraordinary variety of insect pests. 

 Lice, bed-bugs, fleas, cockroaches, and 

 spiders literally swarm under the matting' 

 and over the walls, making the night un- 

 bearable to any one save a native. I had 

 a folding canvas bed, but the insects 

 crawled up its legs, and after further 

 experience I learned that the only way to 

 rest comfortably in a native house was 

 to spread a circle of insect powder about 

 the cot, get mside a sleeping-bag, and pull 

 the cover tightly over my head 



Structurally the huts are interesting 

 tor the Koreans have anticipated our hot- 

 air furnace by many hundreds of years 



