A Dutch ship was shipwrecked off the Hermit country known as Chosan (Korea) and anyone found helping a foreign devil was put to death along with the outsider. Hamil lived from a young boy's age to a old man but was able to live with the help of two young kids, a boy and a girl. Finally they helped him escape the wrath of the Emperor's soldiers by helping him build a raft to exit the country.
—S. Peterson