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meant that way.This is quite a lengthy letter for me to write but will add some more to it this evening if I can* think ofmore.\l just read your letter over again and find that I haven't answered all your questions so will add a few pages more.This country is very mountainous, with narrow valleys and not very rich soil as it has been formed so long in a crude way, unlike Japan which is a veritable garden. The natives are poor and subsist on rice and millet and beans, which is the chief products of the land. They cultivate no fruit but wild fruit is abundant. They live in low houses four or five feet high built of clay with a thatched roof, richest people having tile roofs. They dress very scanty and children not at all in summer time. Shame or false modesty is unknown as ’tis all over the east. But for all that they are so good natured.The climate is very healthy here in mountains but in southern Koreanot so good. Here it is quite coldin winter for three months. We have a beautiful spring and fall but July and. August* is a rainy season and quite disagreeable.You must live in a very pleasant place. I think I should like it there. Money is all that keeps one here, butit won't keep me very long any more.I've been* wondering what the names of the mines are where yoy ar~ living. Hoping this finds you ah well and happy, remaining as ever,Yours Very Truly,ft JOSEPH LOWER,Chittabalbic, Korea.P. S.*—My wife askod me if I toldyou baby s name, and remember thatI dtd^'L It is Rachel. We flunk ifis ptetifj don’t ^cnV*
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Belgrade Kendall Miner
Belgrade, Montana, US
Fri, May 17, 1907
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