Excerpt from A Cycle of Cathay: Or, China, South and North The gentle reader will find the explanation in the following pages. I have not had time to compare views with any one who has written on the subject, nor even to verify my dates, having depended solely on my memory, and dictated my text, with all pos sible rapidity, to a stenographer. Trusting the reader will regard favorably the following chapters, unkempt as they are, and that he will lay down the book with the convie tion with which I have written it, namely: that in the events now going on in the Far East, great issues are at stake for the church, the state, and the world. 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.