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WORKS PUBLISHED BY 
XXI. 
{Under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty .) 
NARRATIVE OE THE VOYAGE OE H.M.S. SAMABANG, 
during the years 1843-46. By Capt. Sir Edward Belcher, 
C.B., E.B.A.S., and G.S., Commander of the Expedition. 
With a Popular Summary of the Natural History of the 
islands visited, by Arthur Adams, E.L.S., Assistant-Sur- 
geon, B.N. 
Commencing at Borneo, the Expedition extended as far north as 
Korea and Japan, including within its limits the islands of Quel- 
part and Loo-Choo, the Meia-co-shimah and Batanese Groups, the 
Philippine and Sooloo Archipelagos, Celebes, Ternate, and Giiolo, 
with other islands of the Blue and Yellow Seas. 
“ The cession of the territory of Sarawak by the Sultan of Borneo to our 
countryman, Mr. Brooke, and its rapid consolidation and prosperity under his 
benignant rule have awakened the mind of Europe, and that of England especially, 
to the great political and commercial importance of the numerous and beautiful 
groups of islands in the Asiatic Archipelago. All these points were visited 
during the long voyage of the Samarang, some of them several times ; and the 
Narrative is intensely interesting.” — Athenceum. 
“These volumes give the official and authorized account of the surveying 
voyage of the Samarang in the Eastern Archipelago and Northern Seas of China 
and Japan. Besides much geographical and practical information, Capt. Belcher’s 
Narrative contains a close and mature view of the ministers and monarchs of 
those distant regions. A novelty about the portions of Sir E. Belcher’s book to 
which we are now adverting, is their conscientiousness and apparent veracity, in 
recapitulating the trading capabilities of Borneo and the natural advantages of 
Labuan. The author describes these as he found them without any over-anxiety 
of laudation ; and such of our merchants as contemplate enterprises to that new 
El Dorado will do well to consult his pages beforehand. Sir E. Belcher has 
added something to our knowledge of these regions ; he has viewed the people 
of the Meia-co-shimahs and Loo-Choo with a more wary and intelligent eye than 
any of his predecessors ; and we have little doubt that his conclusions respecting 
them will be found correct. Quelpart and the Korean Archipelago are new 
“Those who wish to comprehend the scope and results of the Voyage, to get 
a clear view of the character and policy of the principal peoples of those parts, to 
judge of our prospects of quickly opening an extensive trade in the Archipelago, 
and to form a distinct geographical idea of the region, must possess themselves of 
Capt. Belcher’s work. Nor will it, amid its instruction, be found unattractive.” — 
Spectator. 
In 2 vols., 8vo., 964 pp., 35 Charts, Coloured Plates, and 
Etchings. Price 36s., cloth. 
