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"It was not until the seventeenth century that Europeans came in contact with Coreans, when some unfortunate Dutchmen were shipwrecked on the coast and held captive for years.
Place after place which he mentions in their captive wanderings have been identified, and every scene and every feature can be recognised as if it were a tale told of to-day. Rev. J. Ross, History of Corea, ; en Ch. Dallet, Histoire de l' Eglise de Corée, 1874.
We may well fancy them to be the last of the household gods of the shipwrecked Wetteree, who, like Will Adams of Japanese history, lived and died a captive exile though the honoured guest and adviser of the king and government. The presence of these captive Dutchmen in Corea may perhaps explain what must always seem an anomaly among Asiatic races, namely blue eyes and fair hair. Zie Dr.
Woord Van De Dag