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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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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
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