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0014 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
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vi   PREFACE.

Continent,' I endeavoured to give as many

of the geographical details I had observed

as seemed to me would be of service to

geographers and future travellers.   In the

present I have felt myself at liberty to dis-

card such dry matter and retain only what

has some small chance of interesting an over-

burdened public.

Travellers are not less vain than the rest of

mankind probably more so—and I like to

delude myself with the hope that some of

my experiences, some account of those remote

haunts of nature which I visited as well as of

the child-races and historical people whom I

met may still be of interest to my countrymen

at home. My sincerest wish at any rate is that

I may be able to communicate to them even a

spark of that keen pleasure and enthusiasm

which exploration so amply affords.

For greater convenience I have divided the

previous book into two parts. The first dealing

with my travels in the Chinese Empire I now