Excerpt from Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis From 1840 to 1843, and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong-Kong, and Remarks on the Characters Habits of the Chinese

At the end of the work will be found an account of a visit to some of the harbours of the important island of Hainan, which must acquire greater importance through the progressive increase of our commercial intercourse with China, and in the Appendix have been added the new regulations concerning trade in China, and an abstract of the supplementary treaty recently concluded.

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