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Het door\r\nHendrik Hamel van Gorkum, boekhouder van het jacht de Sperwer,\r\nopgestelde relaas van hetgeen hij en zijne kameraden, na schipbreuk te\r\nhebben geleden op een eiland van Korea, gedurende hun verblijf van\r\n16531666 in dat land hebben ondervonden en waargenomen, heeft\r\nbij landgenoot en vreemdeling een gunstig onthaal gevonden en bleef\r\nruim twee eeuwen lang het eenige werkje waarin eene op eigen\r\naanschouwing en ondervinding gegronde beschrijving voorkwam van dit\r\ngeheimzinnige rijk en zijne bewoners.\nToen Korea in 1876 voor vreemdelingen toegankelijk was geworden,\r\nkregen nieuwe bezoekers den indruk dat Hamel een betrouwbaar verteller\r\nwas geweest en eenvoudigweg had neergeschreven wat hij en zijne\r\nlotgenooten hadden medegemaakt en opgemerkt. Voor de\r\nLinschoten-Vereeniging bestond alzoo reden om door het uitgeven van\r\nHamels Journaal de aandacht op het werk van dezen\r\nlandgenoot te vestigen. De verzorging van een nieuwen druk droeg zij\r\ndaarom op aan een harer bestuursleden, die evenwel kwam te overlijden\r\neer hij tot de uitvoering van die taak was overgegaan. Nu wilde het\r\ntoeval, dat ik mij had bezig gehouden met nasporingen aangaande de\r\naanrakingen van de Oost-Indische Compagnie met Korea, zoodat het mij\r\nweldra mogelijk was eene bewerking van Hamels Journaal, waarbij\r\ngebruik is gemaakt van gegevens welke diens verhaal aanvullen en\r\nbevestigen, ter beschikking van de Linschoten-Vereeniging te stellen.\r\nWaarom de voorkeur is gegeven aan een tot nog toe onbekenden tekst, zal\r\nuit de Inleiding duidelijk worden; de overneming van de\r\nblijkbaar oorspronkelijke houtsneden uit eene in 1668 verschenen\r\nuitgaaf van het Journaal zal, naar het voorkomt, instemming vinden.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 11467 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hoetink, B. 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I am also under great obligations to\r\nMr. Seradin Sabatin, Architect to His Majesty the King, and to Mr. Krien,\r\nGerman Consul at Seoul, for the kindness and hospitality with which they\r\ntreated me on my first arrival at their city.\nThe illustrations in this book are reproductions of sketches taken by me\r\nwhile in the country, and though, perhaps, they want much in artistic\r\nmerit, I venture to hope that they will be found characteristic.\nFor literary style I hope my readers will not look. I am not a literary\r\nman, nor do I desire to profess myself such. 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So soon, however, as he found fault\r\nwith the conditions prevailing in Korea, he was contemptuously termed a\r\n'yellow journalist' and a 'sensation monger.'\"From \"Empires of the Far\r\nEast\" by F. Lancelot Lawson. London. Grant Richards.\n\"Mr. McKenzie was perhaps the only foreigner outside the ranks of\r\nmissionaries who ever took the trouble to elude the vigilance of the\r\nJapanese, escape from Seoul into the interior, and there see with his own\r\neyes what the Japanese were really doing. And yet when men of this kind,\r\nwho write of things which come within scope of personal observation and\r\nenquiry, have the presumption to tell the world that all is not well in\r\nKorea, and that the Japanese cannot be acquitted of guilt in this context,\r\ngrave pundits in Tokyo, London and New York gravely rebuke them for\r\nfollowing their own senses in preference to the official returns of the\r\nResidency General. It is a poor joke at the best! 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De conducteur kwam in onzen waggon, om kennis te geven dat er eene verzakking op de baan was ontstaan en dat de trein\r\nvr den volgenden dag niet verder zou gaan. Wij vonden het zeer opmerkelijk dat men op het station, waarvan wij zooeven vertrokken\r\nwaren, van den toestand van de baan niets geweten zou hebben, en dat men daar den trein kalm had laten vertrekken. Doch er\r\nviel niet aan te doen, wij moesten blijven waar wij waren. Den volgenden morgen werd ons gezegd dat de trein, die ons verder\r\nzou voeren, klaar stond aan de andere zijde der verzakking. Die andere zijde was drie mijlen ver; echter gelukte het ons,\r\nmet vereende krachten en met behulp van koelies, om onze bagage op een inlandsche kar te krijgen en daarmee, door de rijstvelden\r\nheen en over een steilen, steenachtigen heuvel, den trein te bereiken. Wij moesten ons hier met een goederenwagon behelpen;\r\nwij zaten er op een smalle bank, te midden [282]van tal van inlandsche passagiers met al hun pak en zak. 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This officer obtained permission from the Admiralty to\r\naccompany me, though on half pay, and having no specific duty to\r\nperform, he was enabled to devote himself entirely to the acquisition of\r\nknowledge; and had it in his power to record many interesting\r\noccurrences of the voyage, which the numerous duties of my station left\r\nme but little leisure to observe or describe.\nAll the Charts, Tables, and Nautical Notices have been placed in an\r\nAppendix, in order to avoid the interruption which such details are apt\r\nto occasion when inserted in a journal; and the Nautical reader will\r\nperhaps consider it advantageous, to have this part of the subject set\r\napart, and condensed, instead of being scattered over the pages of the\r\nnarrative.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 29051 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hall, Basil \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 6, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hall, Basil,1788-1844 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219119374493,"sku":"gb-29051-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/29051.jpg?v=1671515352"},{"product_id":"reisherinneringen-uit-korea-en-china-gb-41379","title":"Reisherinneringen uit Korea en China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReisherinneringen uit Korea en China - De Aarde en haar Volken, 1904\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHet was op een helderen voorjaarsdag in t begin\r\nvan Mei, toen de heesters op de berghellingen hun nieuw groen kleed\r\nhadden aangetrokken, azaleas in vroolijke tinten hun sierlijke\r\nbloesems ontplooiden, en de zon niettegenstaande de opstijvende\r\nvoorjaarsbries weldadig tintelde, dat de Genkai-Maru, een van de\r\nnieuwste stoomers van de Nippon-Yusen-Kaisha, de haven van Nagasaki\r\nverliet, om koers te zetten naar Fusan, een handelsplaatsje op de\r\nzuidkust van Korea.\nAan boord bevond zich, behalve een groot aantal Chineesche en\r\nJapansche passagiers, een klein groepje Europeanen waaronder een jong\r\nDuitsch echtpaar uit Kobe, die zich bij ons hadden aangesloten om door\r\nKorea en China te reizen, twee Duitsche officieren uit Tientsin en wij\r\ntwee Hollandsche reizigsters. De Genkai-Maru is een van de\r\nvoortbrengselen van Japansche industrie uit den tijd, toen Japan meende\r\nvoldoende op de hoogte van scheepsbouwkunst te zijn, om hulp van\r\nEuropeanen te kunnen missen.\nHoewel er dikwijls, en zeer terecht, zoowel aan de zeewaardigheid\r\nvan dergelijke schepen als aan de zeevaartkennis van hun kapiteins\r\ngetwijfeld wordt en de talrijke courantenberichten van strandingen en\r\naanvaringen dien twijfel rechtvaardigen, is men soms genoodzaakt\r\ngebruik te maken van dit verbindingsmiddel tusschen Korea en Japan.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 41379 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Schmidt auf Altenstadt, A. von \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 16, 2012 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: Dutch \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Schmidt auf Altenstadt, A. von \/ eBook \/ Dutch","offer_id":43221293334685,"sku":"gb-41379-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/41379.jpg?v=1671589993"},{"product_id":"15-years-among-the-top-knots-life-in-korea-gb-50609","title":"15 Years Among the Top-Knots: Life in Korea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFifteen Years Among the Top-Knots; Or, Life in Korea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chapters which are here given to the public are\r\nsimply reminiscent, a brief story of a few years of the\r\nwriters life in one of the most unique and interesting of\r\nall the Eastern countries, among a people who are singularly\r\nwinning and lovable.\nI beg that in reading these pages it may be remembered\r\nthat this book makes no pretense whatever to being a text\r\nor reference book on Korea, or in any respect a history of\r\nKorean missions. The writer has simply strung together\r\na few events which have fallen under her own personal\r\nobservation during the last fifteen years. If more frequent\r\nreference is made to the work carried on by my\r\nhusband and myself than to others, it is simply because it\r\nis only with regard to that which has been woven into the\r\nweb of my own experience that I can speak with exactness\r\nand authority. All it is hoped to accomplish is, that sufficient\r\ninsight into the customs and character of the people,\r\nand their moral and political atmosphere, with the results,\r\nopportunities and possible limitations of mission work,\r\nmay be given to induce the reader to study further, and\r\nperchance to question what his relation to it all is.\nI must acknowledge my great indebtedness to Dr.\r\nH. N. Allens chronological index, by which I have been\r\nable to verify many dates.\r\nxii\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 50609 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Underwood, Lillias H. (Lillias Horton) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 4, 2015 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Underwood, Lillias H. 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Many other works on history, geography\nand biography have been consulted, but in the\nmain the narrative in the works mentioned above has\nbeen followed.\nA number of Chinese works have been consulted,\nespecially the Mun-hon Tong-go wherein we find the best\ndescription of the wild tribes that occupied the peninsula\nabout the time of Christ.\nIt has been far more difficult to obtain material for\ncompiling the history of the past five centuries. By unwritten\nlaw the history of no dynasty in Korea has ever\nbeen published until after its fall. Official records are\ncarefully kept in the government archives and when the\ndynasty closes these are published by the new dynasty.\nThere is an official record which is published under the\nname of the Kuk-cho Po-gam but it can in no sense be\ncalled a history, for it can contain nothing that is not\ncomplimentary to the ruling house and, moreover, it has\nnot been brought down even to the opening of the 19th\ncentury. It has been necessary therefore to find private\niimanuscript histories of the dynasty and by uniting and\ncomparing them secure as accurate a delineation as possible\nof the salient features of modern Korean history.\nIn this I have enjoyed the services of a Korean scholar\nwho has made the history of this dynasty a special study\nfor the past twenty-five years and who has had access\nto a large number of private manuscripts. I withhold\nhis name by special request. By special courtesy I have\nalso been granted access to one of the largest and most\ncomplete private libraries in the capital. Japanese records\nhave also been consulted in regard to special points\nbearing on the relations between Korea and Japan.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 52127 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hulbert, Homer B. (Homer Bezaleel) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 22, 2016 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Hulbert, Homer B. 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That note also includes an account of the approach taken\r\nfor addressing these issues.\nChinas reply to the Japanese.... the Chinese army.... the Chinese commander\r\ninterviews the King.... march on Pyng-yang.... Chinese\r\ntreachery.... the new year.... Chinese help not all a blessing.... Pyng-yang\r\ninvested.... the Chinese force an entrance.... Japanese\r\ndriven to bay.... how they escape.... they retreat.... they mass\r\nat Seoul.... Chinese stop at Song-do.... Koreans bridge the Im-jin.... Chinese\r\nretire to Pyng-yang.... Korean victory in the north.... great\r\nvictory at Hng-ju.... the Japanese sue for peace.... conference\r\non the Han.... Japanese evacuate Seoul.... the terrible condition\r\nof the city.... Chinese enter Seoul.... they prevent pursuit.... Japanese\r\ndesecrate a royal tomb.... Chinese accused of bad\r\nfaith.... Japanese line of camps.... Chinese reinforced.... the great\r\nbattle of Chin-ju.... a loyal dancing-girl.... admiral Yi still active.... 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And believing that the object could be\naccomplished best in displaying the thought, life, and habits of the\npeople as portrayed in their native lore, I have made these\ntranslations, which, while they are so chosen as to cover various\nphases of life, are not to be considered as especially selected.\nI also wished to have some means of answering the constant inquiries\nfrom all parts of the country concerning Korean life and\ncharacteristics.\nPeople in Washington have asked me if Korea was an island in the\nMediterranean; others [4]have asked if Korea could be reached by rail\nfrom Europe; others have supposed that Korea was somewhere in the South\nSeas, with a climate that enabled the natives to dispense with\nclothing. 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Thereby\nconsiderable light was thrown upon the Oriental world.\nJapan, up to a very short time ago, through the pen and tongue\nof poets and artists, who have visited this land, has been thought\nto be merely a country of beautiful flowers, charming mademoiselles,\nfantastic parasols, fans and screens. Such misrepresentation\nhas long impressed the western mind, and the people hardly\nimagined Japan as a political power, enlightened by a perfect\neducational system and developed to a high pitch of excellence in\nnaval and military arts.\nThe war in the East is certainly interesting from more than one\npoint of view. Viewing it from the humane standpoint, Japan is,\nindeed, the true standard-bearer of civilization and progress in the\nfar east. Her mission is to enlighten the millions of slumbering\nsouls in the Celestial Kingdom, darkened for generations. 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Commercially, she has demonstrated\nherself the mistress of the Pacific and Asiatic Seas.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 55608 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: White, Trumbull \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 23, 2017 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIllustrator\u003c\/b\u003e: Fireman, J. 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They were rather a silent\r\ntrio. The mandarin knew, or pretended he knew,\r\nno English. The Englishman pretended to know\r\nconsiderable Chinese, but, as a matter of fact,\r\nknew almost none. The two men were about\r\nequally fluent in rather bad French, and were\r\nwont to use it as the medium for a good deal of\r\nconversation, when they were alone. But to-night,\r\nwith the spoiled woman sitting between\r\nthem, neither seemed to have a word to say. Perhaps\r\nthey both felt embarrassed by what to both\r\nof them must have seemed the ridiculousness of\r\nthe situation.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 56623 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Miln, Louise Jordan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 22, 2018 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Miln, Louise Jordan,1864-1933 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43238145720477,"sku":"gb-56623-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/56623.jpg?v=1672330765"},{"product_id":"the-korea-review-vol-5-no-5-may-1905-gb-58243","title":"The Korea Review, Vol. 5 No. 5, May 1905","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Korea Review, Vol. 5 No. 5, May 1905\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassengers from the intermediate stations where no Ticket office exists, will\r\nProcure the Tickets from Conductors on the Trains. 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Everywhere the finger of tradition pointed westward across the waters to the\nAsian mainland, and the whole region was eloquent of kin beyond sea. Birds and animals,\nfruits and falcons, vegetables and trees, farmers implements and the potters wheel,\nnames in geography and things [x]in the arts, and doctrines and systems in religion were in some way connected with\nCorea.\n\nThe thought often came to me as I walked within the moss-grown feudal castle wallsold\nin story, but then newly given up to schools of Western science and languageswhy\nshould Corea be sealed and mysterious, when Japan, once a hermit, had opened her doors\nand come out into the worlds market-place? When would Coreas awakening come? 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