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Title: Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas

Author: W. Hastings Macaulay

Release Date: January 21, 2009 [EBook #27861]

Language: English

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KATHAY:
A
CRUISE IN THE CHINA SEAS.

BY
W. HASTINGS MACAULAY.

"Coelum, non animum, mutant,
Qui trans mare currunt."

NEW-YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.
M.DCCC.LII.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,
by G. P. PUTNAM & COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the
Southern District of New-York.

JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER,
49 Ann-Street.

Dedication
TO
MRS. JANE G. SPROSTON, BALTIMORE.

ESTEEMED AND RESPECTED MADAM:

I have presumed to address this work to you, more to prove the truth of
its motto, than from any hope that it may be intrinsically worthy of
your acceptance.

Connected with a noble profession by ties at once sad and dear, I have
considered that a narration of events seen in its service--however
unworthily set down, might not be uninteresting to you; and feeling
assured that your prayers and kind wishes have followed us through
"changing skies," as we have sped across "distant seas,"--upon our safe
return, I am truly happy in being able to imitate the custom of mariners
of more sunny climes, and to place this offering of affection upon the
altar of Gratitude.

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAPTER I.

Set Sail--Sea-sickness--Get a good offing--Sail ho!--Islets
of St. Paul--Shipwreck there--Sufferings--Crossing the
Line--Fernando Noronha--Fire--Remarkable peak--Arrival
at Rio--Disappointment--Beauties of the harbor--Ashore at
last--Village of San Domingo--Flying trip to city--Yellow
fever--All hands up anchor