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KOREANS AT WORK. 
The officers of the ‘‘Boussole” in La Peronse's voyage 
did not land, and we were probably the first Euro- 
peans who had ever set foot on the island. 
The shore is composed of great limestone 
boulders, worn round by the action of the waves; 
the tidal rocks are covered with barnacles and 
limpets ; and I observed that Monodonta neritoides, 
had taken the j^lace of M. labeo, which is the 
common sj)ecies on the mainland. The barnacles 
are Pollicipcs and Conia, and the Littorina or 
periwinkle is similar to that of the mainland. 
As we landed in a little bay we perceived three 
poor Koreans at work. ^Ye observed that they 
were engaged with adze and saw in repairing 
a dilapidated boat exactly as La Perouse found 
those he saw eighty years ago. They had dried 
vast numbers of haliotis or sea-ears, which they 
string u2:)on rattans for the Chinese market, and 
sell at the rate of tlmee hundred for a dollar. 
They likewise collect great heaps of dried seals’ 
flesh, near which I found a dermaster, a silpha, a 
nitidula, and a staphylinus, — all carrion-beetles. 
