Our Stay in Wewon--We Give a Dinner--Our Guests--Magistrates Propose that we Travel with a Chain-Gang--Our Trip Down the Yalu--The Rapids--Contrast Between Korean and Chinese Shores--We Enter Weju--The Drunken Magistrate--Presents and Punishments--Unpleasant Experiences with Insincere People--Rice Christians--The Scheming Colporter--The Men Baptized in Weju--The Lost Passport--Another Audience at the Palace--Queen’s Dress and Ornaments--Korean Summer House--The Pocket Dictionary--Our Homes 77 CHAPTER VI An Audience at the Palace--Dancing Girls--Entertainment Given after the Audience--Printing the Dictionary and Grammar--A Korean in Japan--Fasting to Feast--Death of Mr. Davies--Dr. Heron’s Sickness--Mrs. Heron’s Midnight Ride--Dr. Heron’s Death--Difficulty in Getting a Cemetery Concession--Forced Return to America--Compensations--Chemulpo in Summer--The “Term Question” in China, Korea and Japan--Difficulties in the Work 93 CHAPTER VII The Mission in 1893--“The Shelter”--Opening of Japanese War--Seoul Populace Panic Stricken--Dr. and Mrs. Hall in Pyeng Yang--Heroic Conduct of Native Christians--Condition of Pyeng Yang after the War--Dr. Hall’s Death--Preaching the Gospel at the Palace--The Queen Seeks to Strengthen Friendly Relations with Europeans--Her Majesty’s Generosity--A Little Child at the Palace--The Slaves of the Ring--A Christmas Tree at the Palace--The Queen’s Beneficent Plans--The Post-office Emeute of 1884--A Haunted Palace--The Murder of Kim Oh Kiun 106 CHAPTER VIII Mr. McKenzie--The First Church Built by Natives--Mr. McKenzie’s Sickness--His Death--Warning to New Missionaries--The Tonghaks--Mr. Underwood’s Trip to Sorai in Summer--Native Churches--Our Use of Helpers--Christians in Seoul Build their Own Church--Epidemic of Cholera--Unhygienic Practices--Unsanitary Condition of City 123 CHAPTER IX Difficulty of Enforcing Quarantine Regulations--Greedy Officials “Eat” Relief Funds--Americans Stand Alone to Face the Foe--The Emergency Cholera Hospital--The Inspection Officers--We Decide to Use the “Shelter”--A Pathetic Case--The Jesus Man--Gratitude of the Koreans--The New Church--The Murder of the Queen--Testimony of Foreigners--The Official Report 136 CHAPTER X The Palace after the Murder--Panic--Attitude of Foreign Legations--The King’s Life in Hourly Danger--Noble Refugees--Americans on Guard--Mistakes of the New Government--Objectionable Sumptuary Laws--A Plan to Rescue the King--One Night at the Palace--Forcing an Entrance--Our Little Drama--Escape of General Yun 153 CHAPTER XI