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[[underlined]] Chapter X. [[/underlined]]  20^[[7.]]

their invasion of Korea alluded to in the text are said to have sent back to Japan, pickled in tubs of [[underlined]] sake [[/underlined]], the ears of 37,800 Koreans; over these was erected the mound called the Mimizuka. 
   Compare also the cutting off by the Mongols of the right ears of the 270,000 persons, of both sexes and all ages, whom they masacred when they took Moscow, in 1237. 
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     Again, at the southern base of a prominent landmark called "^[[E]]agle Rock", on the coast a couple of miles to the north, a badly eroded earthwork of some sort was said to be the tomb of a Korean chieftain named K^[[a]] Ssŭ Wên [[濭]] 蘇 文, killed in battle against the soldiers of T'ang T'ai-tsung (first half of the 7th century A.D.). 
      Further, the ramparts that we had traced on Lighthouse Point itself (see map) were, we found, known among the local population as the Kao-li [[superscript]] (187) [[/superscript]] Ch'êng Korean chieftain named K^[[a]] Ssŭ Wên 濭 蘇 文, killed in battle against the soldiers of T'ang T'ai-tsung (first half of the 7th century A.D.) Further, the ramparts that we had traced on Lighthouse Point itself (see map) were, we found known among the local population as the Kao-li Ch'eng Korean chieftain named Ku Ssŭ Wên 蓋 蘇 文, killed in battle against the soldiers of T'ang T'ai-tsung (first half of the 7th century A.D.).
Further, the ramparts that we had traced on Lighthouse Point itself (see map) were, we found, known among the local population as the Kao-li Ch'eng 高 麗 城---the "Korean Walls". Some of our in-
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 [[superscript]] (187) [[/superscript]] Whence our name "Korea"; the later Chinese appellation for the little peninsular kingdom was Chao-hsien 朝鮮 (often pronounced "Ch'ao-hsien").
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formants declared, indeed, that the Korean raiders had at one time or another actually held the region temporarily, in face of the Chinese opposition. 
    I recalled in this connection that I had read---or heard; just where, I was unable to bring to mind---that the great emperor Han Wu Ti (reigned 140-87 B.C.) had, during his wars against the Koreans, [[superscript]] (188) [[/superscript]] main-
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[[superscript]] (188) [[/superscript]] These wars occurred toward the close of the 2nd century B.C. The "Korea" of two thousand years ago did not occupy the entire peninsula but only the basin of the Yal^[[u]] River and the adjacent regions. It ^ [[insertion]] ^[[thus]] [[/insertion]] embraced a considerable portion of southern Manchuria as well as the northern part of Korea proper. 
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tained in northern Chinese waters three naval bases or stations. Of these, one was situated in peninsular Shantung, perhaps at or near the present Lai Chou 萊 州. Another was said to have been at Port Arthur, close to the extremity of the Liaotung Peninsula, in southernmost Manchuria. The third was somewhere on the western shore of the Gulf of