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Hamel’s travels. 
ment, the dinner being composed of the very same 
dishes, and served in precisely the same manner.” 
We smoked a good deal, and quaifed many little 
cups of warm scented pink saki ; eventually taking 
our leave, much pleased with the hospitality shown 
us. The whole affair reminded us of a similar 
entertainment very elaborately described by Kemp- 
fer, even to the circumstance of the inebriate 
doctor : — Good liquor was drunk about plentifully 
all the while, and the Commissioner’s surgeon, who 
was to treat us, did not miss to take his full dose.” 
The Editor of Hamers Travels seems to throw 
some doubt upon the authenticity of his account, 
though on very insufficient grounds. The names of 
the towns through which the shipwrecked Dutch- 
men passed on their way from the coast to the 
capital, do not, it appears, correspond with those in 
a map of the Korea, which they copied from one 
hung up in the king’s palace. The difference, 
however, may be easily accounted for; the names 
in the map being doubtless written in Chinese cha- 
racters, which are entirely different from those 
