I am also indebted to the “Korean Repository,” and to the “Life of Dr. James Hall,” for part of the story of the events connected with his work in Pyeng Yang, both before and after the war, and for the official report of the trial of the queen’s murderers at Hiroshima. More than all, I am obliged to my husband, by whose assistance I have obtained from Koreans the particulars relating to the Emeute of 1884, the Tonghaks, the Pusaings, the Independents, and the Romanists. He has also given me many of the anecdotes of native Christian life, and as we lived it all out ourselves, this volume is as much his as mine. LILLIAS H. UNDERWOOD. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE First Arrival--First Impressions--The City of Seoul--Korean Houses--Mission Homes--Personnel of Mission in 1888--Beginnings of Work--Difficulties in Attaining the Language--Korean Religions--Palace Women--First Interview with Palace Women--Entertainment Given in my Honor by President of Foreign Office--The Interdict--Confidence Exhibited by Government in Protestant Missionaries--The “Baby Riots”--Babies Reported to Have Been Eaten at Foreign Legations--Restoring Confidence--The Signal--First Invitation to Palace 1 CHAPTER II The Palaces--The Stone Dogs--The Fire God’s Defeat--The Summer Pleasure House--Royal Reception Hall--Court Dress of Noblemen--First Impression of the King--Appearance of the Queen--The Queen’s Troubles--The Queen’s Coup d’État--The Verb Endings--The Queen’s Generosity--Stone Fight--Gifts--The Quaga--Poukhan--Its Impregnability--Picturesque Surroundings of Seoul--Pioneer Work--Progress of Work--The Queen’s Wedding Gift--Our Wedding--Opposition to my Going to the Interior--My Chair--The Chair Coolies 20 CHAPTER III We Start on our Wedding Journey--Songdo--Guards at our Gates--Crossing the Tai-tong--Difficulties in Finding an Inn--Korean Launderings--An Old Man Seeks to be Rid of Sin--Mob at an Inn--A Ruffian Bursts Open my Door--Fight in the Inn Yard--Pat Defies the Crowd--Convenience of Top-Knots--A Magistrate Refuses to Shelter Us--The “Captain” to the Rescue--Pack-ponies--We Lay a Deep Scheme--Torch Bearers--A Mountain Hamlet--Tiger Traps--Tigers--A Band of Thirty Conspire to Attack us--Guns Used by Native Hunters--A Tiger Story 38 CHAPTER IV Leaving Kangai--We Choose a Short Cut--Much Goitre in the Mountains--A Deserted Village--The Jericho Road--We are Attacked by Robbers--A Struggle in the Inn Yard--Odds too Great--Our Attendants are Seized and Carried Off--The Kind Inn-Keeper--Inopportune Patients--A Race for Life--A City of Refuge--A Beautiful Custom--Safe at Last--The Magistrate Turns Out to be an Old Friend--The Charge to the Hunters 60 CHAPTER V