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Title: Strange peoples & customs
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Evans, Adelaide Bee
Subjects: Children Missions
Publisher: Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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edover the wall. But the city is growing fast, and widestreets filled with low houses and little shopsare now built far beyond the large gates.Street cars run in and out nearly all night.The gates now serve only to remind the peopleof other times, like statues of great men thatyou have seen in the park. Chosen is a country of mountains. No mat-ter where one may go, he is always in sightof hills and valleys, and often high mountainsseem to shut him in like a great wall. In thenorth there are many tigers in the mountains,and often they come down into the valleys insearch of something to eat. The skins of thesetigers are greatly prized, not only by thepeople of Chosen, but by the Japanese andthe Chinese. QUEER CITIES AND VILLAGES Seoul is the largest city in Chosen; but ifyou were to stand on a hill and look down onit, as I did yesterday, you would think it aqueer-looking city. Nearly all the houses arelow, with gray tiled roofs. Seen from a dis-tance, the city looks as much like a great
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(202) THE LAND OF AfORXING CALM 208 paved floor as anything else. Of course thereare some taller buildings, put up by the Japa-nese and others, but the greater part of thecity is very flat. When we climb a hillside in Chosen, andstand on its ridge, looking down on every side,it is fun to see how many little villages we cancount. There are villages near and far, rightat our feet and away at the edge of thevalley. But how strange they look — not atall like our little towns, with white-paintedhouses, and red barns, and here and there achurch pointing its finger-like steeple to theblue sky. No, these Chosen villages look like — strawstacks! Dozens of straw stacks, close to-gether. Sometimes one has to look very sharpto see them at all! There is a good reason for the houses look-mg like straw stacks, and this is it: Theirroofs are made of straw. The walls of thehouses are of mud, with only enough timbersto hold in place the light strips on which themud is plastered. Small poles hold up

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