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The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

CHAPTER XV
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Divine service alfo was performed on deck.

In the afternoon the wind was foutherly, with frefh gales, but dry, fo that we were able the following morning to clean between decks, and alfo to fumigate the fhip with gunpowder.
But I must hasten, for my narrative is not of Adam Strang the shipwrecked sea-cuny on a coral isle, but of Adam Strang, later named Yi Yong-ik, the Mighty One, who was one time favourite of the powerful Yunsan, who was lover and husband of the Lady Om of the princely house of Min, and who was long time beggar and pariah in all the villages of all the coasts and roads of Cho-Sen.

(Ah, ha, I have you there--Cho-Sen.

It means the land of the morning calm.

In modern speech it is called Korea.) Remember, it was between three and four centuries back that I lived, the first white man, on the coral isles of Raa Kook.


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