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SEOUL-JENCHUAN,

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Chinese vamên. The offices of the Six Ministries or administrative boards, the Ryuk-phan-so, are small houses at the head of the street leading from the Kwang- hwa-mun to the main street. The width of the main streets is much reduced by the construction in front of nearly every house of a rude wooden shanty used for a work- shop or for business purposes, which gives the streets a poor and squalid appearance. The city, like most eastern towns, is very dirty, heaps of filth being allowed to accumulate, and the open draius on each side of the streets are the receptacles for all sorts of abominatious. The population of the city is variously estimated at from 150,000 to 2×0,000 persons. A recent return gave the number of houses as 30,723.

FOREIGN OFFICE.

DIRECTORY.

President-Min Yong-mok Vice-President-Kim Hung-chip

do. -P. G. von Müllendorff

do.

do.

—Li Tso-vön

-Kim Wan-sbik

CHINESE REPRESENTATIVES.

Chief Commissioner-Chen Shu-tang Assistant do. -Chen Yuen-chang

Do. do. -Li Hsing-chu Secretary-Fan Kuai-han Assistant Secretary-Chen Wai-yuen

Do. do. -Cheng Chih-ting

JAPANESE LEGATION.

Minister Resident—S. Takezoye Secretary of Legation-T. Kobayashi (Con-

sul at Jenchuan) Attuché-S. Kinoshita

do.

-Y. S. Yoshidei (French inter- [preter)

do. --K. Asayama (Corean interpreter) do. —E. Ube

do.

G. Kato (Chinese interpreter) do. K. Tanada (English do.) do. Militaire--Captain S. Tsobayashi, staff officer

Physician-H. Kainoshi

UNITED STATES LEGATION. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-

potentiary-L. H. Foote Secretary C. S. Scudder

HIS COREAN MAJESTY'S CUSTOME. Chief-P. G. von Möllendorff Commissioner- Joseph Haas Chief Assistant-J. R. Macbeth Assistant-H. G. Armous

do.

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- Woo Chung Yen

MERCHANTE, Jardine, Matheson & Co.

W. H. Gubbins

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND

LANGUAGES. Teacher-T. E. Hallifax

JENCHUAN.

This port, also known as Inchiun, and called by the Japanese Ninsen, is situated in Imperatrice Guif, on the west coast of Corea, in the metropolitan province, Kiung-kei, and was opened to Japanese trade on the 1st January, 1883. It is well situated for trade, being no great distance from the capital, for which it is the port, and will probably soon develop into importance.

DIRECTORY.

HIS COREAN MAJESTY'S CUSTOMS.

Commissioner—A. B. Stripling Harbour Master-F. W. Schulze Engineer-N. S. Bekofsky Assistant-E. Laporte

do. -C. Krebs

Assistant-Woo Li Tang

do. -S. Nakabayashi

do. Lin Poy Chuan Boat Officer-F. H. Morsel

Ezaminer-F. Borioni Tidewaiter A. Ladage

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FUSAN.

Fusan, or Pusan as it is also called, is the chief port of Kiung-sang, the south- eastern province of Corea, and lies in lat. 35 dep. 6 min. 6 sec. N. and long. 129 deg. 3 min. 2 sec. E. It was opened to Japanese trade in 1870 and to Americans in 1883. The native town is a collection of thatched cabins with a population of about 2,000 inha bitants. Fusan possesses a castle surrounded by walls from 15 to 20 feet high. The Japanese settlement is situated a little distance from the native town, opposite the island of Cholyongdo, and is regularly laid out, clean, and well kept. It is under the control of the Consul, who is, however, assisted by an elective Municipal Council. Order is maintained by a Police Force in uniforms of European pattern. The Ja panese residents number over 2,000, of whom about half are from the island of Tsushima.

Fusan possesses a large and spacious harbour, with a sufficient depth of water There are eight native villages situated_at to accommodate the largest vessels. the head of the barbour, and within a few miles of the Japanese settlement. The district city Toong Li Fu, which is distant about eight miles, is the local centre of trade. The principal exports are hides, horns, bones, sea weed (red and white), dried fish, shark's fins, beans, nutgalls, oil-cake, cotton piece goods, grass cloths, raw silk, and The chief imports are piece goods, lead, glass, blankets, sundry medicines. matches (Japanese), paper, and sundries. The total value of the exports and imports for 1883 amounted to over one million dollars. The climate is very salubrious and the place considered extremely healthy. Sea bathing may be had in perfection, A branch of the Foreign Customs Service was established in July, 1883. The Mitsu Bishi Mail Steamship Company run a regular line of steamers between Kobe and A small steamer Wladivostock, calling at Nagasaki, Fusan, and Yuensan; and iu 1883 started a regular line from Kobe to Jenchuan, calling at Nagasaki and Fusan.

also runs from Kobe to Jenchuan, calling at Nagasaki and Fusan, once a month.

DIRECTORY.

Consulate and Public Office.

日本領事館

JAPANESE CONSULATE GENERAL.

H. Miyamoto, acting consul-general

A. Kazoni, interpreter

日本商務會議局

JAPANESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

H. Oashi, president

S. Yamada, chairman

Y. Ghin, secretary

日本大醫院

JAPANESE GENERAL Hospital.

Benten Street.

M. Koike, doctor-in-charge

T. Yatahro, assistant surgeon

T. Kokoboo, accountant

日本書信館

IMPERIAL JAPANESE POST OFFICE.

At the Consulate.

T. Iwaii, post-master

日本巡捕局

JAPANESE POLICE STATION. Horn Street.

K. Morokashi, superiutendent S. Ito, inspector

15 constables

大朝鮮釜山海關

ROYAL MARITIME CUSTOMB.

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Custom House.

ioner-W. Nelson Lovatt

Assistants-Chesney Duncan, H. A. Rey-

nolds, Tong Sui Yi, K. Takesita

Harbour Master—Q. P. Posthumus

Examiner-H. H. Hawkins

Tidewaiters-J. P. Civilini, J. H. Smith,

B. J. Lewis

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IMPERIAL TELEGRAPH OFFICE.

To be in working order in January, 1884.