presented his lighted pipe for us to smoke. We received
him as kindly as we could, and prevailed upon him to take
a . glass ofwine ; which he had no sooner drank off, than he
roared out, “ H o ta ! H o ta!”
This exclamation brought the rest down, who seating
themselves by us, drank freely, and became very cheerful
and communicative, telling us the Corean names of every
thing we pointed to, and asking, in return, the E n g lish
names for our clothes.* But though the wine made these
people far more sociable than any we had yet seen, they
never forgot the principal object of their thoughts, and
suggested, every now and then, by pointing to our boats;
the propriety of our going away. After sunset, they
became very impatient and uneasy a t our stay ; but:when
at length we yielded to their entreaties, the whole party
accompanied us to the water's side, and took leave with
the most livlely marks of satisfaction a t our departure.
10th of September.—This morning, about ten o’clock,
we got under weigh, and stood to the southward. By sunset
we were clear of all the islands, and could just distinguish
the island of Quelpaert in the south-east quarter.
The shortness of our stay on this coast, and the difficulty
we experienced in communicating with the inhabitants,
* See note at the end of the Loo-choo vocabulary.
will account for the scanty and disjointed nature of the
information obtained. A future voyager would do well to
be accompanied by a person who can write the Chinese
character, and should have full leisure to overcome, by
patient management, the distrust of strangers evinced by
this unsociable people.
A chart of our track along this coast is subjoined to
this work, in the hope that it may prove useful to a future
voyager. As it was constructed under circumstances of
great haste, it is necessarily incomplete; yet it will probably
be found more .accurate than any maps or charts hitherto
published.