












  TRADE AND TRAVEL
  IN THE
  FAR EAST;

  OR
  RECOLLECTIONS OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS
  PASSED IN
  JAVA, SINGAPORE, AUSTRALIA,
  AND CHINA.


  BY G. F. DAVIDSON.


  LONDON:
  MADDEN AND MALCOLM,
  LEADENHALL STREET.
  1846.


  LONDON:
  PRINTED BY MADDEN AND MALCOLM,
  8 LEADENHALL STREET.




PREFACE.


The following pages were written to beguile the tediousness of a long
voyage from Hong Kong to England, during the spring and summer of 1844.
When I state, that the whole was written with the paper on my knee, for
want of a desk, amid continual interruptions from three young children
lacking amusement during their long confinement on ship-board, and with
a perpetual liability to be pitched to leeward, paper and all,