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The Koreans’ fondness for legends earned them jibes from the missionaries, who preferred to trust only
what they saw with their own eyes -like Guillaume de Ruysbroeck in Tartary, describing curious hairy
animals that leap to their drinks crying Chin-Chin.

Having seen nothing of the like at the bottom of the river Taedong, I won’t insist on an involuntary plunge,
nor on the reflex that led me (rather than any attempt at swimming) to clasp tightly in my pocket the silver
tetradrachma that protects me.

Even though I read today, in an article by M.C. Haguenauer: « The water spirits detest gold and silver, one
merely need carry a little on one’s person to avoid drowning. »