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 PREFACE. years in Korea, much of which time has been spent among the people in the villages far removed from the outer world, have proved to be so intensely interesting to me that I am persuaded many other people would be pleased to see Korea and her people as I have seen them.

With this thought in mind these pages have been written, and with the hope that all who read will be brought into a clearer knowledge of and a deeper sympathy with this people who have been so often misrepresented and whom I have learned to love so well.

I have avoided everything in the form of bookish or literary style and tried to imagine myself telling my story to a company composed of men, women, and children who are anxious to learn more of a strange people in a far-away land.

For facts of history, geography, etc., I am largely indebted to the writings of Prof. H. B. Hulbert and Rev. D. L. Gifford.

August 20, 1909. (5)