Seoul to-- _Li._ Ko-yang 40 Pa Ju 40 O-mok 40 Ohur-chuk Kio 30 Song-do 10 O-hung-suk Ju 30 Kun-ko Kai 30 Tol Maru 35 An-shung-pa Pal 25 Shur-hung 30 Hung-shou Wan 30 Pong-san 40 Whang Ju 40 Kur-moun Tari 30 Chi-dol-pa Pal 40 Phyöng-yang 30 Mori-ko Kai 30 Liang-yang Chang 30 Cha-san 30 Shou-yang Yi 40 Ha-kai Oil 35 Ka Chang 35 Huok Kuri 40 Tok Chhön 30 Shur-chong 30 An-kil Yung 20 Shil-yi 40 Mou-chin Tai 25 Sun Chhön 35 Cha-san 30 Siang-yang Chhön 40 An-chin Miriok 30 Phyöng-yang 20 ---- Total land journey 1060 FOOTNOTES: [39] The Seoul _Christian News_, a paper recently started, gave its readers an account of the Indian famine, with the result that the Christians in the magistracy of Chang-yang raised among themselves $84 for the sufferers in a land they had hardly heard of, some of the women sending their solid silver rings to be turned into _cash_. In Seoul the native Presbyterian churches gave $60 to the same fund, of which $20 were collected by a new congregation organized entirely by Koreans. I am under the impression that the liberality of the Korean Christians in proportion to their means far exceeds our own. [40] The American Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. CHAPTER XXXI THE HAIR-CROPPING EDICT The year 1896 opened for Korea in a gloom as profound as that in which the previous year had closed. There were small insurrections in all quarters, various officials were killed, and some of the rebels threatened to march on the capital. Japanese influence declined, Japanese troops were gradually withdrawn from the posts they had occupied, the engagements of many of the Japanese advisers and controllers in departments expired and were not renewed, some of the reforms instituted by Japan during the period of her ascendency died a natural death, there was a distinctly retrograde movement, and government was disintegrating all over the land.