rd many interesting
occurrences of the voyage, which the numerous duties of my station left
me but little leisure to observe or describe.

All the Charts, Tables, and Nautical Notices have been placed in an
Appendix, in order to avoid the interruption which such details are apt
to occasion when inserted in a journal; and the Nautical reader will
perhaps consider it advantageous, to have this part of the subject set
apart, and condensed, instead of being scattered over the pages of the
narrative.

I am indebted to Mr. Clifford for very important assistance in
collecting and arranging the materials which form this Appendix.

The northern part of the Chart of the Yellow Sea, given in the Appendix,
was taken from a Chart by Captain Daniel Ross, of the Bombay marine, the
scientific and able surveyor commanding the squadron which the
Honourable East India Company, in the spirit of a liberal and enlarged
policy, have employed for upwards of nine years, in surveying the China
Seas.

The Vocabulary is exclusively compiled by Mr. Clifford, who took the
greatest pains to collect words and sentences in common use; and though,
from the shortness of our stay, this part of the work is necessarily
incomplete, it is hoped that a future voyager will derive considerable
assistance from it, in his intercourse with the natives.

The drawings of scenery and costume were made by Mr. William Havell, the
eminent artist who accompanied the Embassy, from sketches taken on the
spot, by Mr. C.W. Browne, midshipman of the Alceste, and myself.

Nothing respecting the west side of Corea has hitherto been accurately
known to Europeans. The coast laid down in most Charts has been taken
from the celebrated map of the Jesuits, which is very correct in what
relates to China, but erroneous with respect to Corea. The Jesuits,
indeed, did not survey this country, but have inserted it in their map,
I believe, from Japanese authorities.

Captain Broughton in his voyage to the North Pacific Ocean visited the
South Coast of Corea, and his account of the inhabitants agrees with
ours in most particulars.

The same distinguished voyager visited the Great Loo-choo Island in
1797, after having been shipwrecked near Typinsan, one of its dependant
islands. He was at Napakiang for a few days, and his account of the
natives is highly interesting.

There is an article by Pere Gaubil, a missionary, on the subject of the
Loo-choo Islands, in the 23d vol. of the "L