786 General Notes. [August,. 
Corea.—According to Mr. Carles there is in Corea a great 
disproportion between the numbers of the sexes, the males being 
the more numerous. There seems to be no evidence of female 
infanticide, but a greater number of deaths among girls in infancy. 
As a land of large hats Corea is unsurpassed. At Phyong Yang, 
a large town on the west coast, the hats worn by the poor women 
are baskets three and a half feet long, two and a half wide and 
two and a half deep, which conceal their faces as effectually as 
does the white cloak which women of a better class wear over 
their heads. The men wear a somewhat smaller basket of the 
same shape. It requires both hands to keep it in place. A simi- 
lar structure, of a size but little larger, is used to cover fishing 
boats. The monument erected over the grave of a doctor of let- 
ters is the trunk of a tree painted like a barber’s pole up toa 
height of some thirty feet. The top and branches are cut off, 
and on the summit is placed a slim carved dragon twenty feet 
long, with a head like that of an alligator. Mr. Carles reports, 
contrary to the statements of some other travelers, frequent evi- 
dences of mineral wealth. 
M. de Mailly-Chalon's Fourney— M. de Mailly-Chalon gives 
in the Bulletin de la Société de Geographie a paper on a journey 
in Manchuria, from Peking through Kirin to Ninguta, and then 
along the Tiumen to Vladivostock. The journey the whole way 
was along the Corean frontier. From Vladirostock the travelers _ 
proceeded to Tomsk, thence to Samarkand, through Karshi to 
Bokhara, to the Amou-Darya at Charjni, down that river to Petro- 
Alexandrovsk, thence to Khiva, and lastly across the Kara-Kum 
to Merv, Sarakhs and Meshed. 
Oceanica—New Zealand—The April issue of the Proceed- 
ings of the Royal Geographical Society contains an account of a 
recent exploration of the King country of the North island, New 
Zealand. This country, containing some 10,000 square miles, is 
the Maori stronghold, and white men were, after the war 0 
1863-64, forbidden to enter under pain of death. It had thus 
never been surveyed prior to Mr, Kerry-Nicholl’s expedition in 
1883. In the course of 600 miles of travel twenty-five rivers not 
previously shown upon the maps, and two small lakes, were 
found ; the sources of the four principal rivers of the colony, the 
Whanganui, Waikato, Whangaehu and Manganui-a-te-Ao, were 
traced; the hydrograph y of oe es in relation to the four 
distinct here flowing into ined ; the or = 
Mt. Tongariro (9300 feet) and Mt Toa u 9000 feet), the high- 
est peak of the North Pa were uapou ( and the r logical 
structure of the Kaimauawa mountains was made out. The 
Toe Bs miles and 1175 feet above the sea. 
