tion>Basil Hall
Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066239329
Table of Contents
DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING THE PLATES.
CHARTS
NOTICE TO ACCOMPANY THE CHART OF THE WEST COAST OF COREA.
ABSTRACT OF THE LYRA'S VOYAGE, FROM LEAVING ENGLAND TILL HER RETURN;
SOUTHERN SHORE OF THE YELLOW SEA.
SPECIMENS FROM HUTTON'S ISLAND, COAST OF COREA.
VOCABULARY OF THE LANGUAGE. SPOKEN AT. THE GREAT LOO-CHOO ISLAND, IN THE. JAPAN SEA.
OBSERVATIONS. ON. THE LOO-CHOO LANGUAGE.
VOCABULARY. OF THE. LOO-CHOO LANGUAGE.
SENTENCES, ENGLISH AND LOO-CHOO.
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE JAPANESE AND LOO-CHOO LANGUAGES.
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE JAPANESE AND LOO-CHOO LANGUAGES.
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE LANGUAGES OF LOO-CHOO AND INSU. AN ISLAND IN THE. JAPAN SEA.
COMPARISON BETWEEN THE LANGUAGES OF LOO-CHOO, JAPAN, AND INSU.
WORDS OBTAINED FROM THE INHABITANTS OF THE WEST COAST OF COREA.
PREFACE.
The following work contains a Narrative of the Voyage to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-choo Island; an Appendix, containing Nautical details; and a Vocabulary of the Language spoken at Loo-choo.
In drawing up the Narrative from journals written at the time, I have derived great assistance from notes made by Lieutenant H.J. Clifford, of the Navy. This officer obtained permission from the Admiralty to accompany me, though on half pay, and having no specific duty to perform, he was enabled to devote himself entirely to the acquisition of knowledge; and had it in his power to record many interesting occurrences of the voyage, which the numerous duties of my station left me but little leisure to observe or describe.
All the Charts, Tables, and Nautical Notices have been placed in an Appendix, in order to avoid the interruption which such details are apt to occasion when inserted in a journal;
