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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 1
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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. Cunynghame set off from Plymouth Sound on board
HMS Belle-Isle in late 1841 to take up his post, and the first half
of Volume 1 consists of a description of the long journey out to
China (they touched at Rio de Janeiro before re-crossing the
Atlantic to South Africa, and later visited Singapore and Hong
Kong). Once in China, Cunynghame travelled widely in the course of
his duties, and recorded his experiences in detail, from the
wonders of the Yangtse River to the walls of Nankin: as he observes
in his dedication, 'events and anecdotes occurring in a country
that is so strange and new to all Europe may be worth recording'.
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