An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company to the Court of the Emperor of China in the Years 1794 and 1795

Excerpt from An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company. One of our'' fellowntravellers~ M. De Guignes a Frenchman who accompanied the embaity m quality of Interpreter noted down his obfervations alfo with the imten tion of-publifhing them; but his project which may even ferve to {hew the confor mity of our remarks was of no ufe to me fince neither I nor any other perfon at tached to the embafiy had any knowledge of his work. My Journal on the con trary was copied for the Ambafla''dor and lay open to the infpetion of all the other Dutchmen who performed the journey....