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Show ANCIENT CITY KNOWN TO FEW Musan, in Korea, Visited Only by Occasional Oc-casional Stragglers From Western West-ern Civilization. Few white men have been fortunate enough to wander inland, in Korea, as far as the ancient city of Musan. This city, with its grim old walls bearing five centuries of history, lies on the very edge of Korea. To enter it is Mke stepping backward to another world. Into a story of the Arabian Nights. During the Russo-Japanese war several sev-eral Russians took refuge there, and since theu half a dozen foreigners have discovered it, but, except for these stragglers, Musan lies unknown to the Western world. The great central cen-tral palace, or reception hall of the city, remains intact, and close by, in partial ruins, is the temple guesthouse. The smaller public buildings, the gates, the watch towers and even the walls themselves have their own particular story to tell of Musan's interesting past, but few people know it. People who have hunted tigers in the vicinity of Musan say the animals are more beautiful than their relatives of India or the Malay peninsula. These beauties range among the bitterly cold mountains of China, Korea and Manchuria, Man-churia, and far into Siberia. |