Excerpt from China and Japan: Being a Narrative of the Cruise of the U. S. Steam-Frigate Powhatan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59, and '60; Including an Account of the Japanese Embassy to the United States; Illustrated With Life Portraits of the Embassadors and Their Principal Officials
This being my first attempt at authorship, I earnestly crave the charitable forbearance of critics, promising most faithfully and cheerfully, not to repeat the infliction upon their more learned sensibilities.
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