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CHAPTER XII. 
Port of Mali-lu-san — A Seining Party — Beautiful Scene — Hauling tlio 
Seine — A Viviparous Fish — Encounter with a Snake A Clever 
Thief— Deer Island— Buck Shooting— Lichens and Toads— The 
Sunny Gorge — Wilford’s Rest — Range of the Tiger. 
, One afternoon, anclior in the safe 
and pretty port of Mali-lu-san, one of the Korean 
group, there was a seining party, which I acconi- 
panied. The day Avas lovely; the Avhole face ot 
the country Avas bright and smiling ; the barley 
Avas ripe in the fields, the hills Avere covered Avith 
a varied green, and the little rippling Av^aA’^es ot 
the clear Avater of the bay Avere dancing in tlie 
sun. * Stretching far aAA^ay to the north and to 
the south AA^ere groups ot dark-blue islets, rising 
mistily from the surface of the sea — -glimpses of 
that mysterious archipelago among the unknoAvn 
islands of Avhich I cruised in by-gone years. The 
sea was covered with large picturesque boats, 
