Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, Vol. 1: To the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795
One of our' fellowntravellers, M. De Guignes, a Frenchman, who accompanied the embaity m quality of Interpreter, noted down his obfervations alfo, with the imten tion of-publifhing them; but his project, which may even ferve to {hew the confor mity of our remarks, was of no ufe to me, fince neither I nor any other perfon at tached to the embafiy, had any knowledge of his work. My Journal, on the con trary, was copied for the Ambafla'dor, and lay open to the infpeétion of all the other Dutchmen who performed the journey.
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