carried out of the country each year, part of which sees the custom-house, and probably as much more which does not is exported to China and Japan. One hundred miles north from Pyeng-yang, at Unsan, gold is being mined by an American syndicate, which also has under construction the first railroad to be built in Korea, which will run from Chemulpo to Seoul.
In the matter of fruits there is first a woody pear, which reminds me of the remark of my lamented friend Ritchie, of China, in speaking of similar fruit in that country: "It all depends on what you are eating it for. If you are eating it for a turnip, it is very good." There are musk-melons, apricots, nectarines, grapes, a small red cherry that grows on a bush, scrubby apples, luscious persimmons and excellent chestnuts and walnuts. The Koreans have fine-looking cattle which they use, bullocks and cows alike, for working in the fields, carrying loads and dragging great clumsy carts. Cowhide is an article of export. Koreans never think of drinking milk, and express great disrelish for the taste of butter. The average Korean is too poor to eat beef and pork with any regularity, and in their stead he eats various varieties of fish, and, though he is slow to admit it to the foreigner, he occasionally roasts his dog. A few sheep exist, which are reserved as sacred animals for royal sacrifice to Hananim, on special occasions, such as a drouth.
The Korean pony is small, sure-footed, pos-
