NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO CHINA, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR ΤΟ THE PRESENT PERIOD; WITH SKETCHES OF THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THAT COUNTRY. BY COMMANDER J. ELLIOT BINGHAM, R.N., Late First Lieutenant of H. M. S. Modeste. CONTRA AUDENTIOR ITO.-Virgil. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. M.DCCC XLII. 252. TO THE REV. RICHARD BINGHAM, B.C.L., CANON OF CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL, VICAR OF HALE MAGNA, LINCOLNSHIRE, AND INCUMBENT OF THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY GOSPORT, THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN CHINA IS DEDICATED, AS A MEMORIAL OF AFFECTION AND TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM, BY HIS DUTIFUL SON, THE AUTHOR. ERRATA. VOL. I. Page 18, line 5, for ships, read ship. 25 86 161 169 241 244 270 14, for separating them, read separating it. 6, for Teen-Tsin, read Tien-sing. 16, for Hoppo, read Hoppo's. 23, for Cruiser, read Cruizer. 18, for of, read of the. 9, for water-place, read watering-place. 19, for coast, read court. 1, for coi ing, read coiling. 19, for Acest, read Alceste. 5, for we had, read we have had. 25, for the, read their. 9, for chiefly, read daily. |