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HAULIKG THE SEINE. 
wliicli, crowded with Koreans in their white flut- 
tering robes, were putting off from the adjacent 
villages, and sculling across the pellucid water to 
visit the stranger ship. 
AVe chose a sheltered bay, and commenced 
paying out the seine. Koreans, seated in groups, 
bare-headed, or wearing their broad-brimmed hats, 
were smoking their pipes in silence, as they in- 
quisitively observed our jiroceedings. The rooks 
in the tall and glorious trees that fringed the bay 
cawed loudly with indignant remonstrance at the 
unwonted intrusion upon their quiet haunts ; while 
the sailors, to the tune of their popular songs, 
hauled in the great net, in which upwards of 
one hundred and seventy pounds of bream and 
other fish were taken. 
I, of course, took the opportunity while* here 
of pursuing, with my usual zeal, my natural- 
history inquiries. Among the denizens of the 
sea I noticed toad-fishes, devil-fishes, sea-hoi’ses, 
and swimming -crabs. I also noticed a great 
many individuals of a singular viviparous fish. 
