国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

> > > >
カラー New!IIIFカラー高解像度 白黒高解像度 PDF   日本語 English
0014 Among the Celestials : vol.1
天の間で : vol.1
Among the Celestials : vol.1 / 14 ページ(白黒高解像度画像)

New!引用情報

doi: 10.20676/00000297
引用形式選択: Chicago | APA | Harvard | IEEE

OCR読み取り結果

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