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An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China - A Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas (Paperback)
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An Aide-de-Camp's Recollections of Service in China - A Residence in Hong-Kong, and Visits to Other Islands in the Chinese Seas (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel and Exploration in Asia, Volume 2
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This two-volume work, published in 1844, is a memoir of time spent
in China by Captain Arthur Cunynghame (1812 84), aide-de-camp to
Major-General Lord Saltoun, Commander of the East India Company's
troops in China. In Volume 2, the author is invited to visit
Ning-po, recently given the status of a 'treaty port', and he
subsequently travels to both Hong Kong and Canton (Guangzhou), both
now open to international trade. Cunynghame next accompanied
Saltoun to the Philippines, and gives a fascinating account of life
in Manila. Ordered home in 1844, he travelled via Hong Kong and
Malaya to Calcutta, then south to Madras (Chennai) and Ceylon (Sri
Lanka), and eventually home to England, via the Red Sea, the Sinai
Desert, Egypt and the Mediterranean, noting the curiosities among
both people and places with undiminished zest.
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