Early Relations bctzvecn the United States and China. 171 



Command of Commodore George C. Read in 1838, 1839, 1840. 

 Boston, 1840. 



This is a narrative by one who was on the expedition, and is a 

 readable description, but has no great Hterary merit. 



In the Astor Library. 



Nye, Gideon. 



The Morning of My Life in China, Comprising an outhne of 

 the History of Foreign Intercourse from the Last Year of the 

 Regime of the Honourable East India Company, 1833, to the 

 imprisonment of the Foreign Community in 1839. Canton, 1873. 



This is a lecture by an American before the Canton Community, 

 Jan. 31, 1873. 



Patterson, Samuel. 



Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of Samuel Pat- 

 terson, experienced in the Pacific Ocean, and many other parts 

 of the world, with an Account of the Feegee and Sandwich 

 Islands. Palmer, May i, 1817. 



This was compiled from Patterson's papers and verbal accounts, 

 by Ezekiel Terry, as an act of charity. It gives a common sea- 

 man's side of the sealing and fur trades. 



Renouard de Sainte-Croix, Felix. 



Voyage commercial et Politique aux Indes Orientales, aux 

 lies Philippines, a la Chine, avec des nations sur la Cochin Chine 

 et le Tonquin, Pendant les annees 1803-1807. 3 v., Paris, 1810. 



The third volume gives an account of the affair of the Topaz 

 and the Diana. In Harvard Library. 



Reynolds, J. N. 



Voyage of tlie United States Frigate Potomoc under the com- 

 mand of Commodore John Downes during the Circumnavigation 

 of the Globe in the years 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834, etc. New 

 York, 1835. 



This was compiled from the journals of R. Pinkham, S. Gordon, 

 and Commodore Downes, who were on the cruise, and from 

 verbal accounts of some of the crew. The author joined the 

 expedition only twenty weeks before its close. 



Roberts, Edmund. 



Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and 



