Download or read book Diary of a Journey Overland, Through the Maritime Provinces of China From Manchao, on the South Coast of Hainan, to Canton in the Years 1819 and 1820 (Classic Reprint) written by J. R. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Diary of a Journey Overland, Through the Maritime Provinces of China From Manchao, on the South Coast of Hainan, to Canton in the Years 1819 and 1820 The elysium of the west, which the followers of Fair look for, 18 such as the deluded imagination of an Asiatic would naturally paint. Fortified palaces -groves of trees producing gems - pools of fragrant water, yielding the lol tus flower, as large as the wheel of a cart - showers of sweet odours, falling onfa land, the dust of which is yellow gold-myriads of birds; of the most exquisite plumage, singing on trees of gold, with the most harmonious and ravishing notes, of a hundred thousand kinds, Sac. Sac - such is their para dise - but in conformity with the comparative contempt in which the female character is held throughout the east, they exclude all women, as such, from a participation therein. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.