Category: Travel Writing
Sailing from Boston; Arrival at St. Jago; Description; Exports; Great Drought; Fogo; Fortifications; Sailing for Brazil; Description of the Coast; Harbour of Rio and Distant Views; the City; Public Garden; Boto Fogo; Botanic Garden; Population; Public Buildings; Senate and Hou...
Sailing from Boston; Arrival at St. Jago; Description; Exports; Great Drought; Fogo; Fortifications; Sailing for Brazil; Description of the Coast; Harbour of Rio and Distant Vie...
2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER III.Sailing from Bencoolen; Arrival at Crokatoa and Forsaken Islands; Scenery; Beautiful Submarine Garden; British Frigate; Arrival at Angier; Sailing from Angier; Bay and City of M...
4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.Departure from Manila: Cholera; Cape Bolina; Chinese Vessels; Pilot; Macao; Linting, Village; Whampoa; Jos Houses; Sacrifice; Arrival at Canton; River and Boats; Description of...
6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.Description of Canton; Sacking of the City; Place of Honour; Mourning; Compass; Materials for Buildings; Houses; Principal Offices; Duties and Penalties of Governor; Fires; Gove...
8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.10. CHAPTER X.11. CHAPTER XI.Death; Ceremonies of Imperial Mourning; Population of the Chinese Empire; Knock-head Ceremony; Beggars; Cat and Dog Market; Dr. B. and the China-man; Barbers; Dress of the Chine...
12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.Sailing from Linting to Vung-Lam Harbour, in the Province of Fooyan, or Phuyen; Government of Shundai; Assistant Keeper of Vung-lam; Letters to the King of Cochin-China; Catholi...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Present of a Feast to the Embassy; Description of Arrangement; Deputies of Hué; Extraordinary Demands--Refusal to Forward Despatches to the Emperor; Letter of the Envoy to the M...
15. CHAPTER XV.Suspension of Intercourse; Failure of Mission; Departure of Embassy from Vung-Lam Bay; Envoy’s Titles; Mode of Husking Rice; Tombs of the Dead; Fishing Boats; Absence of Priests...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Passage from Cochin-China to the Gulf of Siam; Arrival at the Mouth of the River Menam; Packnam; Procession to the Government-House; Reception; Governor; Siamese Temples; Interv...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Presentation at the Palace of Bang-kok; Description; Royal Elephant; White Elephants; King of Siam; Great Temple of Guatama; City of Bang-kok; Temple of Wat-chan-tong, and Figur...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.19. CHAPTER XIX.Procession to the Funeral Pile of Wang-na, or Second King; Origin of Budhism in Siam; Sommona Kodom; Atheistical Principles of Budhism; Budhist Commandments; History of Siam; Go...
20. CHAPTER XX.Ancient Laws of Siam; Legal Oaths; Punishment for Debt; Divorces; Population of Siam; Stature and Complexion of the Siamese; Division of Time; Boundaries and Possessions of Siam...
21. CHAPTER XXI.22. CHAPTER XXII.Batavia; Burying-Grounds; Servants’ Wages; Academy of Arts; Departure from Batavia; Arrival at Angier; Departure from Angier; Red Sea; Arrival at Mocha; Turkie Ben Al Mas; Palac...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.24. CHAPTER XXIV.25. CHAPTER XXV.Algoa Bay; Imports; Population of the Cape of Good Hope; Public Institutions; Newspapers; Departure from the Cape; Arrival at Rio Janeiro; Departure from Rio Janeiro; Arrival at...
26. CHAPTER I.The Executive having, in the year 1832, resolved on an attempt to place our commercial relations, with some of the native powers of Asia, on a sure and advantageous basis, order...
27. CHAPTER II.Agreeably to orders from the navy department, the commander of the Peacock was required to proceed to the west coast of Sumatra, to ascertain whether Commodore Downes had obtain...
28. CHAPTER III.On the last day of August, we weighed anchor at nine o’clock in the evening, from Bencoolen bay, and aided by the current and a land breeze, about midnight we once more found ou...
29. CHAPTER IV.There is a fashionable drive in Manila, called the Calzada, encompassing, probably, two thirds of the circumference of Manila: it passes over a low, level piece of ground, borde...
30. CHAPTER V.We had spent a fortnight most pleasantly at Manila, when the painful intelligence was received, that the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera had suddenly made its appearance on board t...
31. CHAPTER VI.Having given a description of the principal temples, &c., I shall now state some particulars relative to the introduction of the Budhism religion into China, and show what are t...
32. CHAPTER VII.The name of Canton on Chinese maps, is written Kwang-tung-sang-ching, that is, the capital of the province of Kwang-tung, but when speaking of the city, the natives call it san-...
33. CHAPTER VIII.The _Literary Institutions_ of China, are the pillars that give stability to the government. Her military forces are utterly inadequate to hold together the numerous and extensi...
34. CHAPTER IX.The Portuguese ships led the way to China in the year 1576, but, difficulties occurring, they were restricted to Macao, to which place they have ever since been limited, excepti...
35. CHAPTER X.Among the _exports_ and _imports to_ and _from China_, are certain articles, which are not generally known to merchants not engaged in commerce to the eastward of the cape of Go...
36. CHAPTER XI.The Chinese having a great horror of the word “_death_,” they substitute in its place various periphrases, such as “absent,” “rambling among the genii,” “he being sick, occasion...
37. CHAPTER XII.The coast of China being similarly situated to that of the United States, having a vast continent stretching from the south and northwest to the northeast, possesses a climate n...
38. CHAPTER XIII.After enduring several days of rainy and squally weather, we weighed anchor, and proceeded towards Turan bay, on the northern coast of Cochin-China, being the nearest and best p...
39. CHAPTER XIV.PRESENT OF A FEAST TO THE EMBASSY--DESCRIPTION OF ARRANGEMENT--DEPUTIES FROM HUÉ--EXTRAORDINARY DEMANDS--REFUSAL TO FORWARD DESPATCHES TO THE EMPEROR--LETTER OF THE ENVOY TO THE...
40. CHAPTER XV.SUSPENSION OF INTERCOURSE--FAILURE OF MISSION--DEPARTURE OF EMBASSY FROM VUNG-LAM BAY--ENVOY’S TITLES--MODE OF HUSKING RICE--TOMBS OF THE DEAD--FISHING BOATS--ABSENCE OF PRIESTS...
41. CHAPTER XVI.PASSAGE FROM COCHIN-CHINA TO THE GULF OF SIAM--ARRIVAL AT THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER MENAM--PACKNAM--PROCESSION TO THE GOVERNMENT-HOUSE--RECEPTION--GOVERNOR--SIAMESE TEMPLES--INTERV...
42. CHAPTER XVII.On Monday, the eighteenth, arrangements having been previously made, three large boats were sent by the praklang, to convey us to the palace, for the purpose of being presented...
43. CHAPTER XVIII.The climate of Siam is more healthy than that of Batavia. Notwithstanding the great heat of the climate, and the vast quantity of uncleaned and undrained land, epidemics do not...
44. CHAPTER XIX._April second._ Having received an invitation from his majesty through the praklang, some days since, to witness the procession of the remains of the late second king to the fun...
45. CHAPTER XX.The higher officers of state are the justices and magistrates, but the final decision rests with the principal local authority within whose district the delinquent resides. Wher...
46. CHAPTER XXI.Having brought my mission to a close in a very satisfactory manner, I was, on the evening of the third of April, invited to wait upon the praklang. The principal object of the v...
47. CHAPTER XXII.I now proceed to give some account of Batavia, &c. Although this city is situated in the midst of low, marshy ground, abounding in rice-swamps, and considered as the most unheal...
48. CHAPTER XXIII.We remained in Mocha roads only two days, and then sailed, on the evening of the first of September, for Muscat. Owing to light winds, we did not pass the “Lesser Bab,” or the n...
49. CHAPTER XXIV.Our voyage from Muscat to Mozambique was not marked by any particular occurrence, excepting the death of a very young and valuable officer. The southwest monsoon having ended, w...
50. CHAPTER XXV.The village in Algoa bay now called Port Elizabeth, is rising into importance most rapidly. Twelve years since, it contained four houses, and now it has upward of one hundred, a...