Arnold Henry Savage-Landor

CHAPTER XIV. Religion - Buddhism - Bonzes - Their power - Shamanism - Spirits - Spirits of the mountain - Stone heaps - Sacred trees - Seized by the spirits - Safe-guard against them - The wind - Sorcerers and sorceresses - Exorcisms - Monasteries.

 

The question of religion is always a difficult one to settle, for - no matter where one goes - there are people who are religious and people who are not.

CHAPTER III. The road to Seoul - The Mapu - Ponies - Oxen - Coolies - Currency - Mode of carrying weights - The Han River - Nearly locked out.

 

I left Chemulpo on January 2nd, but instead of making use of the minuscule ponies, I went on foot, sending my baggage on in advance on a pack-saddle on one of them. I was still suffering considerably from an accident I had sustained to my foot among the hairy folk of the Hokkaido, and I thought that the long walk would probably be beneficial to me, and would take away some of the stiffness which still remained in my ankle.

CHAPTER XV. Police - Detectives - The plank-walk - The square board - The wooden blocks for hands and feet - Floggings - The bamboo rod - The stick - The flexible board - A flogging in Seoul - One hundred strokes for three-halfpence - Wounds produced.

 

Should you happen to be one of the tender-hearted sort, please pass this chapter and the next over, and I shall not bear you any malice. My present object is to describe some of the punishments inflicted on criminals, and, though they are, as a whole, quaint and original, I cannot say that they are pleasing, either to see or to read about.

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