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CHAPTER XX. A Trip to Poo-Kan--a Curious Monastery.

Corea or Cho-Sen: the Land of the Morning Calm · Arnold Henry Savage Landor — chapter 9 of 30 · ~53 words · public domain

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A trip to Poo-kan--A curious monastery.

CHAPTER XXI

Corean physiognomy--Expressions of pleasure--Displeasure--Contempt --Fear--Pluck--Laughter--Astonishment--Admiration--Sulkiness--Jealousy --Intelligence--Affection--Imagination--Dreams--Insanity--Its principal causes--Leprosy--The family--Men and women--Fecundity--Natural and artificial deformities--Abnormalities--Movements and attitudes--The Corean hand--Conservatism.

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PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AN OFFICIAL GOING TO COURT THE PEKIN PASS A WATER-COOLIE H.R.H. PRINCE MIN-YOUNG-HUAN AN INFANTRY SOLDIER A STUDY FROM STILL-LIFE

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