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Excerpt from In Eastern Seas: Or the Commission of Iron Iron Duke, Flag-Ship in China, 1878-83 I much regret the above errors. They would not have occurred had I been able, as is customary, to examine the proofs. But this, as my readers well know, was utterly impossible. 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.