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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'.
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.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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