Excerpt from Recollections of a Three Years Residence in China: Including Peregrinations in Spain, Morocco, Egypt, India, Australia, and New-Zealand
Readers to be - or not to be - I should barely be justified in allowing your attention to be engaged in the perusal of the following pages, which a specious title or a love of travel may have aroused, without referring to the circumstances under which they were written, and giving some explanation why they are sent "into this world scarce half made up, and that so lamely."
They ought, and were intended, to be finished sketches taken from the rough draught of my Journal.
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