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Yedo and Peking

Yedo and Peking

ByRobert Fortune

"AT daylight on the 12th of October, 1860, the swift little barque 'Marmora,' in which I was a passenger from China, was rapidly approaching the coast of Japan — a country at the ends of the earth, and well named by its inhabitants 'the Kingdom of the Origin of the Sun.' When I came on deck in the morning the far-famed shores of Zipangu lay spread before my wondering eyes for the first time. Having heard and read so many stories of this strange land — of its stormy coasts, on which many a goodly vessel had been wrecked; of its fearful earthquakes, which were said to have thrown up, in a single night, mountains many thousands of feet above the level of the sea; of its luxuriant vegetation, full of strange and beautiful forms; of its curious inhabitants; and last, but not least, of its salamanders! — I had long looked upon Japan much in the same light as the Romans regarded our own isles in the days of the ancient Britons." Robert Fortune

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Publication Date
Nov 12, 2011
Language
English
ISBN
9781105240430
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
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By (author): Robert Fortune

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EPUB

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