NOT A DESIRABLE COUNTRY.
Corea is hardly a desirable cotintryto reside in, Judging from the fbllowing paragraph, wbich is clipped from the Japan Mail :— ' 67 all accounts * the Japanese residents of Fusan are haT<* ing anything but a pleasant time this New Year; The cold is reported to be so intense that no possible precautions can gainsay it, and as the people lie shivering in thefr wooden domicles, the roaring of the hungry tigers helps to freeze their already torpid blood. Up to the present time tigers hare contended themselves with inactive menace, so fas as the Japanese are con* eerned, but the inhabitants of the neighbouring Corean villages are not equally fortunate, and from many of ■ them terrible tales of the "man eater's ! raids com/prfe the exiles. Native thieves, too, are apparently quite as nimble and d&ringin Qorea as in Tokio ;ttut so far .the — that much mqilignpd product of national progress — has not betrayed his countryman's confidence, bq that the merchants of Fusan have not yet added burglary to ibeir htehE drscomforte'*
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 June 1881, Page 2
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174NOT A DESIRABLE COUNTRY. Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 1 June 1881, Page 2
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