Note 87 — Journaal

“The nineteenth King was ... the second son of the last king. This Prince commenced his political career at Moukden, where he had been sent as hostage by his father. In the second year of his reign, 1650, he organised the navy ... and died in the year 1659.

The twentieth King was ... son of the last, and born in Moukden, whence he returned a year before his father. He destroyed the Buddhist nunneries.... He died in 1674” (Parker, Corea, China Review XIV, bl. 63).—Vgl. Synchronismes chinois (Variétés sinologiques n^o. 24) Chang-hai, 1905, bl. 457, 462.