In 1816 two British ships accompanying Lord Amherst’s embassy to China explored the barely charted west coast of Korea and then spent weeks at the great Loo-Choo island, today’s Okinawa. Captain Basil Hall describes the people they met, their manners, dress, houses and burial customs, the friendships made despite language barriers, and the charts and scientific notes gathered on the way.
A classic of early Western contact with Korea and the Ryukyus, with a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language. Download the free EPUB.