. Notes and sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon; with chapters on cruising after pirates in Chinese waters. Natural history; Pirates. CHAPTEE XVIII. Having been several years in the East, spread over a period of a quarter of a century, I have of course seen many changes in that part of the world. To begin with, China was not, when I first visited it as a youngster, what it now is; and Japan was little known beyond being represented on the map of the world, or stuck into the corner of that of China: though in the latter country a few phlegmatic Dutchmen endured imprison- ment on one island,
. Notes and sketches from the wild coasts of Nipon; with chapters on cruising after pirates in Chinese waters. Natural history; Pirates. CHAPTEE XVIII. Having been several years in the East, spread over a period of a quarter of a century, I have of course seen many changes in that part of the world. To begin with, China was not, when I first visited it as a youngster, what it now is; and Japan was little known beyond being represented on the map of the world, or stuck into the corner of that of China: though in the latter country a few phlegmatic Dutchmen endured imprison- ment on one island, for the sake of being allowed to send four or five ship-loads of lacquer, etc., to Holland. I remember well when we arrived at Nagasaki in 1855, the trepidation in which we found the Governor. This was a few months after the visit to Hakodadi. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original St. John, Henry Craven, 1837-1909. Edinburgh, D. Douglas
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