The Korean men, like the Chinese, wear the hair long but not braided in a queue. No part of the head is shaved but the hair is wound in a tight coil on the top of the head, secured by a pin which, in the case of the Korean who rode in our coach from Mukden to Antung, was a modern, substantial ten-penny wire nail. The tall, narrow, conical crowns of the open hats, woven from thin bamboo splints, are evidently designed to accommodate this style of hair dressing as well as to be cool.
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Fig. 210.—Group of Korean farm houses with thatched roofs and earthern
walls, standing at the foot of wooded hills.
Here, too, as in China and Manchuria, nearly all crops
are planted in rows, including the cereals, such as wheat,
rye, barley and oats. We traversed first a flat marshy
country with sandy soil and water not more than four feet
below the surface where, on the lowest areas a close ally of
our wild flower-de-luce was in bloom. Wheat was coming
into head but corn and millet were smaller than in
Manchuria. We had left New Wijn at 7:30 in the morning and
