Martha Noyes Williams sailed from New York by way of Loanda, Cape Town and Mauritius to China, and spent a year in and around Canton. She records the streets of the New City, the Imperial Presence Hall on the emperor’s birthday, temples, households and customs, and the seizure of her ship at sea. William Cullen Bryant provides an introductory note.
A rare nineteenth-century woman’s eyewitness account of China and the long sea road there. Download the free EPUB.