CHAPTER XI
Japan in Korea—Historical associations—In Old Fusan—Political and economic interests—Abuse of paramountcy
JAPANESE CAVALRY
Southern Korea bears many evidences of the warlike activities and commercial enterprise of the past generations of Japanese, who, abandoning their own island home, sought domicile upon the shores of the neighbouring peninsula. The precarious existence of these waifs and strays from an alien state, in the midst of a people whose whole attitude was anti-foreign, did not deter others from coming to her ports.