Quelparte

alternative Quelpart · alternative Quelpaert

1. obsoleteJeju, an island of South Korea.

   Then she started northward, by way of the Ryukyu Islands, for the Sea of Japan. In the vicinity of the Island of Quelparte the whalers occupied themselves leisurely with the fishing.

   1936, Herbert H. Gowen, chapter IV, in Five Foreigners in Japan, Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202

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   In 1898 Mr. Harrison persuaded Miss Linnie Davis to come to Chunju as Mrs. Harrison, and they took Chang Gooky as servant in the new home. Drawn nearer to the Master through Mrs. Harrison’s teaching, he expressed a desire to become a preacher of the Word, so he studied first in our Mission school, then in Pyeng Yang and is now one of our ordained Missionaries to Chayju, (Quelparte), an eloquent and effective preacher of the Gospel.

   1920, Anabel Major Nisbet, “The Preparation (1892-1899)”, in Day In and Day Out in Korea: Being some account of the mission work that has been carried on in Korea since 1892 by the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Presbyterian Committee of Publications, →OCLC, page 29