Corea, Without and Within: Chapters on Corean History, Manners and Religion; With Hendrick Hamel's Narrative of Captivity and Travels in Corea, Annotated (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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What Caesar said of Gaul we may apply to the oldest continent. All Asia has been divided into three parts - Chinese, Russian and English. The Gauls themselves seem to be adding a fourth division in Annam, making. It French Asia.
Two portions of Chinese Asia are penin sular - Indo or cochin-china and Corea. In both these countries the French entered first as missionaries, and in both they have attempted to be conquerors. Gaining a foot hold in indo-china, in Corea they have failed.
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