Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island

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Author

Hall, Basil, 1788-1844

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Produced by Jane Hyland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Korea -- Description and travel

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eBook-No.

29051

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29051

Release Date

June 6, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ACCOUNT — BY CAPTAIN BASIL HALL, — AND
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS — NARRATIVE. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. — APPENDIX. — VOCABULARY.
5. 5.DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES. — APPENDIX. — APPENDIX. — VOCABULARY. — VOYAGE TO THE WEST COAST OF COREA AND THE LOO-CHOO ISLANDS.
6. 6.CHAPTER I.
7. 7.CHAPTER II.
8. 8.CHAPTER III.
9. 9.APPENDIX: — CHARTS — TABLE OF OBSERVATIONS — METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, — ABSTRACT OF THE LYRA'S VOYAGE, — GEOLOGICAL MEMORANDUM;
10. 10.CHARTS
11. 11.NOTICE EXPLANATORY OF A CHART
12. 12.NOTICE TO ACCOMPANY THE CHART OF THE WEST COAST OF COREA.
13. 13.NOTICE TO ACCOMPANY THE GENERAL CHART OF THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND, AND THE CHARTS OF NAPAKIANG, AND PORT MELVILLE. — OBSERVATIONS MADE AT NAPAKIANG OBSERVATORY, GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND.
14. 14.LATITUDE OF NAPAKIANG.
15. 15.TABLE OF OBSERVATIONS
16. 16.THE FOLLOWING EIGHT OBSERVATIONS ARE SET DOWN IN THE FULLEST DETAIL, IN ORDER TO SHEW THE METHOD USED IN RECORDING THEM.
17. 17.METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL,
18. 18.ABSTRACT OF THE LYRA'S VOYAGE, FROM LEAVING ENGLAND TILL HER RETURN;
19. 19.GEOLOGICAL MEMORANDUM; BEING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIMENS OF ROCKS COLLECTED AT MACAO AND THE LADRONE ISLANDS, AND ON THE SHORES OF THE YELLOW SEA, THE WEST COAST OF COREA, AND THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND. — GEOLOGICAL MEMORANDUM. — SPECIMENS FROM CHINA. — MACAO. — HONG-KONG, ONE OF THE LADRONE ISLANDS, OFF MACAO. — GREAT LEMMA, ONE OF THE LADRONE ISLANDS, OFF MACAO.
20. 20.SOUTHERN SHORE OF THE YELLOW SEA. — CHE-A-TOW. — CUNG-CUNG-CHEEN ISLANDS. — OEI-HAI-OEI. — LUNG-CUNG-TAO ISLANDS.
21. 21.WEST COAST OF COREA. — SPECIMENS FROM HUTTON'S ISLAND, COAST OF COREA. — MAIN LAND OF COREA. — ANOTHER ISLAND OFF THE COAST OF COREA. — ANOTHER ISLAND NEAR THE ABOVE. — GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND. — SULPHUR ISLAND — END OF THE APPENDIX.
22. 22.OBSERVATIONS ON THE LOO-CHOO LANGUAGE.
23. 23.PART I.
24. 24.VOCABULARY OF THE LOO-CHOO LANGUAGE. — FOOTNOTES: — NOTE.
25. 25.SENTENCES, ENGLISH AND LOO-CHOO. — FOOTNOTES: — NAMES OF PERSONS. — NAMES OF PLACES. — NAMES OF THE DAYS OF THE MOON FROM NEW TO FULL.
26. 26.THE NINE ORDERS OF RANK OF PAYCHINS, OR CHIEFS, WHO ARE DISTINGUISHED BY THE COLOUR OF THEIR BONNETS, CALLED HATCHEE MATCHEE. — TATTOO MARKS ON THE ARMS OF SOME OF THE NATIVES OF THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND. — NAMES OF THE HOURS.
27. 27.NOTE.
28. 28.COMPARISON BETWEEN THE JAPANESE AND LOO-CHOO LANGUAGES. — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.NUMERALS. — FOOTNOTES:
30. 30.COMPARISON BETWEEN THE LANGUAGES OF LOO-CHOO AND INSU. AN ISLAND IN THE JAPAN SEA. — FOOTNOTES:
31. 31.COMPARISON BETWEEN THE LANGUAGES OF LOO-CHOO, JAPAN, AND INSU.
32. 32.WORDS OBTAINED FROM THE INHABITANTS OF THE WEST COAST OF COREA. — THE END.

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