NARRATIVE.
Drawn by C. H. Greenhill. Engraved by W. Lee.
NARRATIVE
OF A RECENT
IMPRISONMENT IN CHINA
AFTER THE
WRECK OF THE KITE.
BY JOHN LEE SCOTT.
Second Edition.
LONDON:
W. H. DALTON, COCKSPUR STREET
1842.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY G. J. PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.
TO THE
RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN PIRIE, BART.,
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON,
THIS NARRATIVE
IS,
WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION,
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY
HIS OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT,
JOHN LEE SCOTT.
PREFACE
TO THE FIRST EDITION.
My only apology for launching this unvarnished narrative upon theworld is, that, after my return to England, I wrote for the amusement,and at the request of my friends, a short account of my shipwreck andsubsequent imprisonment in the Celestial Empire; and considering thatmy sufferings and adventures would, at this time, create an interestwith the public at large, they have strongly urged me to publish thisnarrative. This I have ventured to do, hoping that the faults may beoverlooked, and all indulgence shown to a young merchant sailor.
London, Nov. 16, 1841.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. |
| Leave Shields—Madras—Hired by government—Arrive atChusan—Junks—Sickness—Number of Crew—Yeang-tze-keang—Boatbreaks adrift—Wreck—Mr. Noble andchild drowned—Mrs. Noble—Lieut. Douglas—Vesselrights—Jolly-boat returns—Chinese—Leave the wreck. |
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| CHAPTER II. |
| Get ashore—Village—Appearance of country—Made prisoners—Syrang—Bound—Chinesegentleman—Old women—Meet some of the crew—Kindness of oneChinese—Put into irons—Insults—Interrogated by mandarin—Deathof marines |
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| CHAPTER III. |
| Temple—Cages—Women—Dinner—Hot water—Takendown a river—City—Guns—Hall of Ancestors—Twizelland the missing party—English prisoner—Corporal ofmarines—Jail—Other Lascars—Watch |
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