NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 23 



A glorious opening now presents itself for some reliable and competent 

 scholar, with pecuniary means at command, to collect a library of books re- 

 lating to the Asiatic shores of the North Pacific ocean, as perfect in its way 

 as is that of our great historian, Hubert H. Bancroft, relating to the native 

 races of the American coast; and when as systematically classified, and as 

 thoroughly studied, give to the world full and correct historical details and 

 analytical classifications of all native races on the borders of Asia ; many of 

 whose records and traditions must necessarily fade with radical changes in 

 civilization, and soon pass beyond human reach. 



The splendid sunrise, now dawning in the Orient, offers golden opportun- 

 ities, which should be promptly improved while available. Old ways are 

 giving place to new, and invaluable treasures of antiquity, may be lost for- 

 ever, or cast aside to linger for a generation or two, in the memories of the 

 aged, before their shadowy forms become enshrouded in the misty veil of a 

 forgotten past. 



