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PREFACE.
their publications relative to China and Japan. I have made selections
from the volumes of Sir Rutherford Alcock and the Rev. Justus Doo-
little, and also from the excellent work of Professor Griffis, " The Mika-
do's Empire." In the episode of a whaling voyage I have been under ob-
ligations to the graphic narrative of Mr. Davis entitled " JSTinirod of the
Sea," not onl}^ for illustrations, but for incidents of the chase of the mon-
sters of the deep.
The author is not aware that any book describing China and Japan,
and specially addressed to the young, has yet appeared. Consecpiently he
is led to hope that his work will iind a welcome among the boys and girls
of America, And wlien the juvenile members of the family have com-
pleted its perusal, the children of a larger growth may possibly tind the
volume not without interest, and may glean from its pages some grains of
information hitherto unknown to them.
New York, October, 1879.
T. W. K.