Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from From Occident to Orient and Around the World, or From Grandeurs of the West to Mysteries of the East: Descriptive of United States, Honolulu, Japan, China, Philippine Islands, Cochin China, Siam, Straits Settlements, Island of Java, Burmah, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Europe
It is a commendable and peculiar characteristic of human nature, as betrayed in the Western mind: the desire to gain all possible knowledge Of the present-day civilization of the world, as well as of the past of the people - _their vices, their virtues, their customs and their religions, their victories and their defeats. Though millions have crossed the Atlantic to visit the scenes of the Old World, to the average traveler (except in very recent years) the mysteries of Asia have remained untraversed and are practically unknown.
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