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 xii i:X>NTBKTS. Page CHAFTEB IX.^COB£JL Repec^ling^The Baddhist PrieBt— Growth of Gaoli— Easteni Pearls— Questionable Friendahip — ^Medical Profesaoxs— Mongols or Mtmgffoo-^ Goraa againct Japan— Another Brave Buddhist— The "Bright" Dynasty— Corean Revolution— Hodem Capital— Eastern Vikings— A Lava (Xty— The Neutral Territory— Japanese Bomanists against Corea— A Bemarkable Japanese Slave— Chinese to the Bescue^-Japanese Betreat— lianchu Conquest of Corea — Beoonquest— Corean Isolation — Jesuits — First Corean Converts — Romanists Murdered — Beasons — M. De Bellonet Dethrones Corean King— The ''General Sherman" — '* Our Bo}*s "— Corean Future— Important Treaty with Japan— Opium 261 CHAPTER X.— COBEAN SOCIAL CUSTOMS. The People— Houses— JDn^— Food— Dress— Birth— Small-Pox— Edttcatioa — Social Giades — Marriage — Death. — MouiunKO BrruAL — Dying— > Dressing Body— Bedding — Coffining — Complete Mournings— Ofieringa — Absent BeUtions — Grave— Funeral — Sacrificial Offerings — Spirits Offering : First, Second, and Third— Food Offerings— Second and Third Sacrificial Offerings — End of Heavy Mourning — Change of (}arb— Second Funeral — Infonning Ancestral Temple— Sorting Grave — Beautiful Theory 299 CHAPTER XL— BEMGION. The Supreme— Booldo— Priest — Lnmortalit}' — ^Four Sections •. • 355 CHAPTER XII.— GOVERNMENT. Laws — Punishments — Incognito— Royal Family— Privy Council and Sir Boards— Provincial — Census 361 CHAPTER XHL- THE COBEAN LANGUAGE. 373 CHAPTER XIV.— GEOGRAPHY. 391