Trade and Travel in the Far East - or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, - Singapore, Australia and China.

Project Gutenberg's Trade and Travel in the Far East, by G. F. Davidson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. Author: G. F. Davidson Release Date: October 24, 2008 [EBook #27014] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRADE AND TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST *** TRADE AND TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST; OR RECOLLECTIONS OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS PASSED IN JAVA, SINGAPORE, AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA. BY G. F. DAVIDSON. LONDON: MADDEN AND MALCOLM, LEADENHALL STREET. 1846. LONDON: PRINTED BY MADDEN AND MALCOLM, 8 LEADENHALL STREET. [i] PREFACE. The following pages were written to beguile the tediousness of a long voyage from Hong Kong to England, during the spring and summer of 1844. When I state, that the whole was written with the paper on my knee, for want of a desk, amid continual interruptions from three young children lacking amusement during their long confinement on ship-board, and with a perpetual liability to be pitched to leeward, paper and all,—I shall have said enough to bespeak from every good-natured reader a candid allowance for whatever defects may attach to the composition.