This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Oriental Translation Fund in London, 1831.

Excerpt from Translations From the Chinese and Armenian: With Notes and Illustrations China, committed violence against the merchants, and bought young Chinese to use them as slaves; and it is known that it was the policy of the civilized foreigners from the Great Western Ocean (which is the Chinese name for Europe) to decry their competitors in trade as pirates and outlaws. 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.