CHAPTER XL 
Exciting Incident— Korean Tombs— Mode of Burial — Dwellings in the 
Korea — Japanese Outpost — An Entertainment — Hamel’s “ Travels” 
— Language of the Koreans — A Commendable Custom — Religious 
Belief — Priests and Kims. 
Durikg our sojourn at Tsaulian an incident 
occurred which might have been attended with 
serious consequences. It was considered necessary, 
for the benefit of future navigators, to fix more 
correctly the position of this place. The captain, 
protected by a guard of marines, landed in the 
morning, and advanced a little way towards a 
hillock in the immediate vicinity of the large walled 
town. He was looking about for some favourable 
spot on which to make his observations, when a 
|)arty of the natives, who had been silently but 
jealously watching our every movement, suddenly 
advanced upon us, thinking, jicrhaps, we were about 
to attack their town. One or two of them, armed 
