Vili PREFACE.
raerous duties of my station left me but little
leisure to observe or describe.
All the Charts, Tables, and Nautical Notices
have been placed in an Appendix, in order to
avoid the interruption which such details are apt
to occasion when inserted in a journal; and the
Nautical reader will perhaps consider it advantageous,
to have this part of the subject set
apart, and condensed, instead of being scattered
over the pages of the narrative.
I am indebted to Mr. Clifford for very important
assistance in collecting and arranging the
materials which form this Appendix.
The northern part of the Chart of the Yellow
Sea, given in the Appendix, was taken from a
Chart by Captain Daniel Ross, of the Bombay
marine, the scientific and able surveyor commanding
the squadron which the Honourable
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East India Company, in the spirit of a liberal
and enlarged policy, have employed for upwards
of nine years, in surveying the.China Seas.
The Vocabulary is exclusively compiled by
Mr. Clifford, who took the greatest pains to
collect words and sentences in common use;
and though, from the shortness of our stay, this
part of the work is necessarily incomplete, it is
hoped that a future voyager will derive considerable
assistance from it, in his intercourse with
the natives.
The drawings of scenery and costume were
made by Mr. William Havell, the eminent artist
who accompanied the Embassy, from sketches
taken on the spot, by Mr. C. W. Browne, midshipman
of the Alceste, and myself.
Nothing respecting the west side of Corea
has hitherto been accurately known to Europeans.
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