Show ca RO az X PP A MAI 73 4 g W KZ 1 1 all OY CHAPMAN ANDREWS as blatant curator of the department of of the american museum of natural history who got back recently from a ten tell months trip to the orient to obtain specimens for tho the museum and who while in korea explored a region never before entered by a white man and discovered three lakes in the north of the country gave the following description of his expedition after finishing my whaling I 1 spent three weeks at japan fish and then returned to korea and went to seoul to interview the they directors of foreign affairs from whom I 1 got the necessary permission to go into the interior then I 1 went away up the coast by ship to Sh ln T fr from oin thera I 1 wanton a push railway you got in a car and natives push you up on handcars handcart hand cars to a military station on the tu men river west of the latter Is a walled town boo years old with its original pullo public buildings and many ancient houses it Is the last place inland eyer before visited by whites the russians went there during the war and now there are ja japanese P gendarmes gen darmes there as aa in every place in the country 1 I spoke a little japanese the cook I 1 had got at seoul spoke english well and the interpreter I 1 had spoke chinese korean and a little E english besides them I 1 had bad in my party six korean horsemen and a hunter tho the northern part of korea Is ab Bol fiare bare of trees unless you so classify the fir underbrush about a toot high my cook who was thirty vine dine years old had never cc cooked aked with wood in his life the only trees you vou see in the southern pa part rt of the country are those that have been left about graves plenty of tigers in korea 1 I wanted to get int into the unknown region which was said to be wooded and full of game the last was true there are leopards in tremendous numbers in many parts of the country snow leopards and there are tigers in many districts the former are very shy but they and the tigers come to the villages when the snow enow drives them and get children horses and dogs 1 I have a leopard skin which was presented to me which Is nine feet long but I 1 did not shoot one myself none has over been killed by a white man in that country 1 I spent tareo weeks hunting two tigers on the mountain and then decided I 1 could spare no more time the country is so big and I 1 would have had bad to beat over a great tract it took a friend of mine in the south of the country two months to get two specimens from I 1 traveled 40 miles west before I 1 came to the edge of the big forest and the last village a hamlet of eight or ton ten houses then I 1 went directly toward palk paik tu san the white topped mountain which la is feet high I 1 went until the snow stopped me which was in may there were no trails I 1 had to steer by compass the forest I 1 found was mainly of virgin larch 50 60 to feet high with nome dome birch with a very thick undergrowth my koreans were afraid to anter it because there were reports boad inroad that chinese robbers were IQ id it right near Is the palk tu bauts where the danchus originated the mountain Is a single peak but it is ie one of a range called the L long ong white mountains of course I 1 wont went into the bi big woods primarily to collect but the fauna was so BO limited it was of no use although tor for alime a almo I 1 was waa running 80 traps and hunting the forest was as aa silent as the grave and very depressing there were no birds except redheaded black woodpeckers as big as aa pigeons and no animals despite the luxuriant vegetation I 1 had bad not been in the country long before I 1 heard beard talk that three othree big 14 rivers were on t the he mountains t the he descriptions of f which convinced me they were lakes korea was supposed to be jak eless it took an immense amount lof of persuasion jawn the is ifs aia lalan k ese gen gendarmes gendar darmes moa to ojA emen to go into the forest with nip me and after we got there they forever wanting to leave me finally I 1 had to threaten threat ed to shoot anybody that tried to steal a horse the ground was full of springs one day in ten or twelve hours work wo we made only five miles we came out of the forest upon one of the lakes suddenly they are upon the summit of a mountain a about feet high I 1 found that the lakes were known by report to the koreans as aa sam cheung che ung three bodies of water and I 1 did not attempt to ten them the largest ts is about three miles in the next to Is about a mile around and the third about two miles the shores areen are entirely of volcanic ash there Is no outlet or inlet 1 I or four days daya there built a raft and made suh adl fi gs the water in th the I 1 lakes k ra ranged ed f from rom six to de eighteen feet 1 in depth p th and as near as I 1 could cola figure out the bottoms are of volcanic ash there ajro re numerous depressions pres in the top at t the mountain and I 1 figure out that he be water in the lakes comes come s from M mol 0 1 ang snow rains f and perhaps sa I 1 P angs bottoms there beamm seem h a probability that the volcanic a ash ai me ime from palk tusan tu san though thol abo h t efer or is 65 miles distant the ash al ale ng the shores of the lake s Is loose a and d you sink into it up to your sho shoe 0 t ps the trees th thereabouts e beabout 6 are on conyl y about SO 20 feet tall i down the balu yalu kaluf to aftung even when we I 1 A tho the lakes my koreans were still I 1 leear of 0 the robbers but we got Util into lito tho the yalu balu country after an une ent tul trip W wo 0 soon came to where lie A japanese had bad been cutting lumbe and then I 1 got a raft at the yalu balu f r my staff and a small boat tor for myse fand went down the river miles to Anti ing near which tho the battle f the yalu balu was waa fought there a railroad all road connects with Aluk mukden den I 1 harlleen harl ha 4 been in tho the forest six weeks s most of the poop helln ein that northern country had bad never seen een a white man As my eyes were not brown they would not belle believe ve that I 1 could see in every village hey would hold up things in fro fra jvon it bof mo me to prove my eyesight in one place peace I 1 saw a man eleven years old and a I 1 lioy boy ot of forty seven you see in kor sa a a male la Is not a man until he man nearl r lea 1 es then ho he can wear tho the national a h hat at the boy ot of eleven had a alfi if and wore a hat the other who c I 1 v as single had to part his hair and wear it down bla big back |