Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fourteen Months in Canton
Work were written during a fourteen months' residence in the city of Canton, where I enjoyed many opportunities of seeing the inner life of the Chinese, and of learning much of their daily life in their own homes. The letters were written for circulation amongst my family and a few friends who kindly expre-cd an interest in all I saw and did in the far-o?' country of China. These descriptive letters accompanied others I wrote at the same time to my family, and so they do not contain any reference to domestic matters neces.
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