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NARRATIVE.


[Illustration: _Drawn by C. H. Greenhill._ _Engraved by W. Lee._]




NARRATIVE
OF A RECENT
IMPRISONMENT IN CHINA
AFTER THE
WRECK OF THE KITE.

[Illustration]

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 the
world 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 and
subsequent imprisonment in the Celestial Empire; and c