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I IN THE LAND WE CALL KOREA 3
II SOME KOREAN SCENES AND CUSTOMS 23
V UP AND DOWN MANCHURIA 71
VI THROUGH RUSSIANIZED CHINA 82
X EVERY ONE HIS OWN DIPLOMAT 160
XX ON TO SIAN-FU 366
FACING PAGE
Map of the author's route 12
Our first view of Seoul, in which the former Temple of Heaven is now a smoking-room in a Japanese hotel garden 16
The interior of a Korean house 16
Close-up of a Korean "jicky-coon," or street porter 17
At the first suggestion of rain the Korean pulls out a little oiled-paper umbrella that fits over his precious horsehair hat 17
Some of the figures, in the gaudiest of colors, surrounding the Golden Buddha in a Korean temple 32
The famous "White Buddha," carved, and painted in white, on a great boulder in the outskirts of Seoul 32
One day, descending the hills toward Seoul, we heard a great jangling hubbub, and found two sorceresses in full swing in a native house, where people come to have their children "cured" 33
Winding thread before one of the many little machine-knit stocking factories in Ping Yang 40
The graves of Korea cover hundreds of her hillsides with their green mounds, usually unmarked, but carefully tended by the superstitious descendants 41
A chicken peddler in Seoul 48
A full load 48
The plowman homeward wends his weary way--in Korean fashion, always carrying the plow and driving his unburdened ox or bull before him. One of the most common sights of Korea 49
The biblical "watch-tower in a cucumber patch" is in evidence all over Korea in the summer, when crops begin to ripen. Whole families often sleep in them during this season, when they spring up all over the country, and often afford the only cool breeze 49
A village blacksmith of Korea. Note the bellows-pumper in his high hat at the rear 64
The interior of a native Korean school of the old type,--dark, dirty, swarming with flies, and loud with a constant chorus 64
In Kongo-san, the "Diamond Mountains" of eastern Korea 65
The monastery kitchen of Yu-jom-sa, typical of Korean cooking 65
One of the monks of Yu-jom-sa 68
This great cliff-carved Buddha, fifty feet high and thirty broad, was done by Chinese artists centuries ago. Note my carrier, a full-sized man, squatting at the lower left-hand corner 68
The carved Buddhas of Sam-pul-gam, at the entrance to the gorge of the Inner Kongo, were chiseled by a famous Korean monk five hundred years ago 69
The camera can at best give only a suggestion of the sheer white rock walls of Shin Man-mul-cho, perhaps the most marvelous bit of scenery in the Far East 69
Two ladies in the station waiting-room of Antung, just across the Yalu from Korea, proudly comparing the relative inadequacy of their crippled feet 76
The Japanese have made Dairen, southern terminus of Manchuria and once the Russian Dalny, one of the most modern cities of the Far East 76
A ruined gallery in the famous North Fort of the Russians at Port Arthur. Hundreds of such war memorials are preserved by the Japanese on the sites of their first victory over the white race 77
The empty Manchu throne of Mukden 77
The Russian so loves a uniform, even after the land it represents has gone to pot, that even school-boys in Vladivostok usually wear them,--red bands, khaki, black trousers, purple epaulets 80
A Manchu woman in her national head-dress, bargaining with a street vender of Mukden for a cup of tea 80
A common sight in Harbin,--a Russian refugee, in this case a blind boy, begging in the street of passing Chinese 81
A Russian in Harbin--evidently not a Bolshevik or he would be living in affluence in Russia 81
A daily sight in Vladivostok,--a group of youths suspected of opinions contrary to those of the Government, rounded up and trotted off to prison 96
A refugee Russian priest, of whom there were many in Harbin 97
Types of this kind swarm along the Chinese Eastern Railway of Manchuria, many of them volunteers in the Chinese army or railway police 97
One of the Russian churches in Harbin, a creamy gray, with green domes and golden crosses, with much gaudy trimming 100
A policeman of Vladivostok, where shaving is looked down upon 100
Two former officers in the czar's army, now bootblacks in the "thieves" market of Harbin--when they catch any one who can afford to be blacked 101
Scores of booths in Harbin, Manchuli, and Vladivostok, selling second-hand hardware of every description, suggest why the factories and trains of Bolshevik Russia have difficulty in running 101
The human freight horses of Tientsin, who toil ten or more hours a day for twenty coppers, about six cents in our money 108
Part of the pass above Kalgan is so steep that no automobile can climb to the great Mongolian plateau unassisted 108
Some of the camel caravans we passed on the Gobi seemed endless. This one had thirty dozen loaded camels and more than a dozen outriders 109
But cattle caravans also cross the Gobi, drawing home-made two-wheeled carts, often with a flag, sometimes the Stars and Stripes, flying at the head 109
The Mongol would not be himself without his horse, though to us this would usually seem only a pony 112
Mongol authorities examining our papers, which Vilner is showing, at Ude. Robes blue, purple, dull red, etc. Biggest Chinaman on left 113
The frontier post of Ude, fifty miles beyond the uninhabited frontier between Inner and Outer Mongolia, where Mongol authorities examine passports and very often turn travelers back 128
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