Distant News and Sea Tales From 1869 Chronicle
The excerpt blends sermons with distant dispatches from China and Peking reports, shipboard reminiscences, and a vivid maritime tale. It recounts a dove at a church window, a British consul’s outrages in Shanghai, a wrecked warship, and Yokohama news, plus a sailor’s dialog about long voyage life aboard the Polly and the harsh taunts from an interior sea crew.
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San Francisco
China
Shanghai
Pekin
la Perouze Straits
Yokohama
Mikado Had Been Crowned At Rioto, Yeddo
Capt. Wakeman
Lace
New York
Daniel
Edward
Wakeman
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