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NARRATIVE

OF A

VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,

PERFORMED IN

HER MAJESTY'S SHIP SULPHUR,

DURING THE YEARS 1836-1842,

INCLUDING DETAILS OF THE

NAVAL OPERATIONS IN CHINA,

FROM DEC. 1840, TO NOV. 1841.

Published under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty.

BY

CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BELCHER, R. N.
C.B., F.R.A.S., &c.

COMMANDER OF THE EXPEDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1843.

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY G. J. PALMER, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

THE EARL OF HADDINGTON,

FIRST LORD COMMISSIONER FOR EXECUTING THE OFFICE

OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF GREAT BRITAIN AND

IRELAND, &c., &c., &c.,

THESE VOLUMES,

CONTAINING

THE NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD,

ARE, BY HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION,

INSCRIBED,

WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT,

BY

HIS LORDSHIP'S OBEDIENT SERVANT,

EDWARD BELCHER.