VICTORIA HARBOUR. 127 
‘ Some of the islands of this Archipelago are very 
lofty, and one was ascertained to Ijoast of a naked 
granite peak more than two thousand feet above the 
level of the sea. Many of the summits are crowned 
with a dense forest of conifers, dark trees very 
similar in appearance to Scotcli^rs. 
After several days spent among these islands, we 
sailed one evening, very tranquilly, into the wide 
deep bay which has received the name in English 
charts of \^ictoria Harbour, but which is known to 
the natives as Tsau-lian, situated on the mainland 
of Korea, and which forms the southern boundary 
of Manchuria. Captain Broughton, who first dis- 
covered it, gave it the name of Tcho-San, most 
probably from hearing the natives call all the sur- 
rounding country 0-tchu-San. As we came to an 
anchor, in the dusk of the evening, beacon fires 
burst forth on all the neighbouring hills, a sure sign 
of the watchfulness, if not alarm, of tlie jealous 
people we were come to visit. 
Betimes on the. next day, large, heav}", flat- 
bottomed boats came off from the nearest land, 
