Excerpt from The Morning of My Life in China: Comprising an Outline of the History of Foreign Intercourse From the Last Year of the Regime of Honorable East India Company, 1833: To the Imprisonment of the Foreign Community in 1839 It is, therefore, in im plicit reliance upon your indulgence, that in this the fortieth year since I reached Can ton, I obey the command of the Gentleman - to whose initiative we are indebted for these social Assemblages - to contribute my simple mite to the ample offerings of others. 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.