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Excerpt from Notes and Sketches From the Wild Coasts of Nipon: With Chapters on Cruising After Pirates in Chinese Waters IT is with much hesitation I offer this volume of rough sketches to the public. Many friends have so often suggested that I should put my Notes into some order, that at last I have endeavoured to do so. But although I inherit my father's love for natural history, his charm of writing, I fear, has not equally descended to me. During my last seven years in the East, when surveying in Japan, I always had the win ter months fairly free from duty, and was then able to enjoy many a good ramble in quest of game, as well as to collect objects of nature. 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.