+------+---------+---------+-------++---------+---------+---------+ | YEARS| RAINFALL| SNOWFALL| TOTAL || FOG | RAIN | SNOW | +------+---------+---------+-------++---------+---------+---------+ | | inches | | || | | | | 1887 | 30.86 | 2.00 | 32.86 || 13d 3h | 19d 17h | 4d 2h | | 1888 | 20.91 | 2.15 | 23.06 || 14d 5h | 12d 6h | 3d 3h | | 1889 | 28.18 | 0.91 | 29.09 || 25d 13h | 25d 5h | 5d 9h | | 1890 | 47.00 | 1.06 | 48.06 || 12d 18h | 27d 10h | 0d 64h | | 1891 | 41.04 | 1.66 | 41.70 || 13d 5h | 30d 20h | 3d 7h | | 1892 | 34.04 | 1.20 | 35.24 || 15d 20h | 16d 10h | 4d 6h | | 1893 | 50.64 | 3.55 | 54.19 || 31d 5h | 36d 6h | 8d 11h | | 1894 | 31.81 | 0.64 | 32.45 || 33d 18h | 21d 9h | 1d 8h | | 1895 | 31.88 | 2.06 | 33.94 || 32d 7h | 29d 11h | 6d 17h | | 1896 | 31.08 | 5.15 | 36.23 || 51d 7h | 27d 0h | 2d 0h | | 1897 | 48.35 | 3.23 | 51.58 || 24d 5h | 31d 17h | 4d 18h | | 1898 | 37.80 | 4.73 | 42.53 || 31d 14h | 29d 19h | 5d 15h | | 1899 | 25.07 | 2.05 | 27.12 || — — | 18d 19h | 1d 3h | | 1900 | 29.14 | 0.83 | 29.97 || — — | 21d 2h | 0d 20h | | 1901 | 7.09 | 0.06 | 7.15 || 7d 5h | 3d 7h | 2d 0h | +------+---------+---------+-------++---------+---------+---------+ I give, also, the rainfall during the years 1898-1901, at the period when a plenteous rain is of supreme importance to the rice industry: +------+------+------+--------+-------+ | YEAR | JUNE | JULY | AUGUST | TOTAL | +------+------+------+--------+-------+ | 1898 | 4.5 | 10.0 | 11.0 | 25.5 | | 1899 | 8.5 | 7.5 | 6.7 | 22.7 | | 1900 | 2.0 | 6.2 | 4.5 | 12.7 | | 1901 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 4.1 | +------+------+------+--------+-------+ In a rice-growing country such as this is, it is essential that an adequate supply of rain should fall during the three summer months to allow of the seed-rice being transplanted and to ensure the maturing of the grain. In 1901, owing to the lack of water, the bulk of the seed-rice was never transplanted at all. It simply withered away. It is, of course, inevitable that one of the immediate results of famine should be a general increase of mortality throughout the country. The impoverished condition, to which so many thousands of Koreans were reduced, weakened their constitutions so seriously that, in many cases, even those who were fortunate enough to escape starvation found their powers fatally impaired. There were many whose inanition and general debility, resulting from their deprivations, had rendered them peculiarly susceptible to disease. More particularly was this the case in the inland districts.