This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII FROM CHANG-AN SA TO WON-SAN On leaving Chang-an Sa for Won-san we retraced our route as far as Kal-rbn-gi, and afterwards crossed the Mak-pai Pass, from which there is a grand view of the Keum-kang San. Much of a somewhat tedious day was spent in crossing a rolling elevated plateau ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII FROM CHANG-AN SA TO WON-SAN On leaving Chang-an Sa for Won-san we retraced our route as far as Kal-rbn-gi, and afterwards crossed the Mak-pai Pass, from which there is a grand view of the Keum-kang San. Much of a somewhat tedious day was spent in crossing a rolling elevated plateau bordered by high denuded hills, on which the potato nourishes at a height of 2500 feet. The soil is very fertile, but not being suited to rice, is very little occupied. Crossing the Sai-kalchai, 2200 feet in altitude, the infamous road descends on a beautiful alluvial valley, a rich farming country, sprinkled with hamlets and surrounded by pretty hills wooded with scrub oak, which in the spring is very largely used for fertilising rice fields. The branches are laid on the inundated surface till the leaves rot off, and they are then removed for fuel. In this innocent-looking valley the tiger scare was in full force. A tiger, the people said, had carried off a woman the previous week, and a dog and pig the previous night. It seemed incredible, yet there was a consensus of evidence. Tigers are occasionally trapped in that region by baiting a pit with a dog or pig, and the ensnared animal is destroyed by poison or hunger to avoid injury to the skin, which, if it be that of a fine animal, is very valuable. A man is not the least ashamed of saying that he has not nerve or pluck for tiger-hunting, which in Korea is a dangerous game, for the hunters are stationed at the head of a gorge, usually behind brushwood, and sometimes behind rocks, the big game, tigers and leopards, being driven up towards them by large bodies of men. When one realises that the arms used are matchlocks lighted by slow matches from cords wound round the arm, and that the charge...
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