Established by ROGER WOLCOTT (II. U. 1870), in memory of his father, for "the purchase of books of per. manent value, the preference to be given to works of History, Political Economy, and Sociology." (Letter of Roger Wolcott, June 1, 1891.)

NARRATIVE

OF THE

EXPEDITION TO CHINA,

FROM THE

COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR

ΤΟ

ITS TERMINATION IN 1842;

WITH

SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THAT
SINGULAR AND HITHERTO ALMOST UNKNOWN

COUNTRY.

BY

COMMANDER J. ELLIOT BINGHAM, R.N.,

Late First Lieutenant of H. M.S. Modeste.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

M.DCCC.XLIII.