466 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1919. 
them, the Koreans stick to their primitive dugouts, paddles, and 
pocket-handkerchief sails. 
Taking them altogether, the Koreans appear to be a poor, listless, 
lazy people, content to live under the heavy hand of their Japanese 
rulers, so long as their long-stemmed pipes do not lack tobacco and 
their flasks the crude, raw spirits which they secure from the Chinese, 
and of which they are inordinately fond. The women, so far as one 
could judge, do all or most of the hard work, the men at the best 
indulging only in fishing, at which, by the way, they are past masters. 
It may be stated here that as fishermen, hunters, and even as agri- 
culturalists the Koreans have spread into parts of Fengtien, right 
through Kirin, and may even be met with on the lower reaches of the 
Sungari, and it is remarkable how, wherever they go, they stick to 
their own dress, dugout canoes, methods of fishing, and manner of 
living. 
The trips into the forest of Northern Kirin were carried out in the 
late autumn with the object of securing specimens of the larger mam- 
mals of the country. I had heard that the town of Imienpo, on the 
Harbin-Ninguta section of the Chinese Eastern Railway, was a good 
place to make one's headquarters while hunting in this region. This 
turned out to be correct, and during the months of September, Octo- 
ber, and part of November, 1914, I made several excursions into the 
forests along the line, returning whenever my supplies ran out and 
revictualing at this little township. 
Owing to the lack of transport and the nature of the forest in this 
district, it Avas impossible to make journeys of long duration. Instead, 
with two or three local Russian hunters, my servant and I, carrying 
on our backs only the barest necessities, would sally forth for three or 
four days at a time, shoot and trap what we could, and return with 
the skins to quarters reserved in Imienpo, where we would attend to 
their preservation. 
This method, though arduous and hardly likely to produce the best 
results, served fairly well. Thus on the first trip two good specimens 
of the Manchurian wapiti were secured, as well as a roedeer, some 
birds, and a good series of small rodents. 
Subsequently I tried hard to secure a wapiti with a good pair of 
antlers, but, though I traversed long distances and put up with con- 
siderable hardship, fortune was against me, and finally I was driven 
back to headquarters with a severe attack of rheumatism. 
We next tried the countrj'^ to the north of Imienpo and were re- 
warded by securing three bears and a couple of gorals, as well as a 
specimen of a black forest hare, some squirrels, minks, voles, rats, 
and mice, and some interesting birds. One of the bears was a fine 
specimen of what may be considered the Manchurian representative 
of the American grizzly. The animal measured seven feet in the flesh 
