DWELLINGS IN THE KOREA. 
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days after the funeral/’ he adds, “ the friends of the 
dead man return to the grave, where they make 
some offerings, and then eating all together, are 
very merry.” This funereal feast would seem to 
resemble an Irish wake, the only difference being 
that it is a little deferred. 
The dwelhngs of the humbler classes in the 
Korea are grouped in hamlets, and their tall 
conical roofs, beneath which are their granaries or 
store-rooms, are usually thatched with reeds. Each 
house is separated from its neighbour, and is in- 
closed within a high stone wall, which entirely 
conceals from those who might be curious enough 
to observe them the domestic arrangements of the 
inmates. Their villages, when viewed from a dis- 
tance, present somewhat the appearance of the 
dwellings of those white ants whose communities 
near Senegal are so well described by Adanson. 
In the cities and large walled towns, the roofs 
of the houses are covered with tiles, and the floors 
of the rooms are hollow underneath. In these 
hollows fires are kindled to warm the inmates in 
