title: Bouquet's Expedition: With preface by Francis Parkman
author: William Smith
description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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  # Jonathan's Visit to the Celestial Empire
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### James Kirke Paulding
  
  
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  Somewhere about the year 1783, Jonathan, a young fellow who lived
  
  
  away down east, took it into his head to make a voyage to Canton.
  
  
  Accordingly he fitted out his sloop, a tarnation clever vessel of about
  
  
  eighty tons, and taking a crazy old compass for his guide, his two
  
  
  cousins, one a lad about sixteen, and a great Newfoundland dog for his
  
  
  crew, and a couple of rusty revolutionary swords for an armament, he
  
  
  boldly set forth on a voyage to the celestial empire.
  
  
  Jonathan was a mighty cute lad, and had read a little or so about
  
  
  the great devotion of the Chinese to the herb called ginseng, which
  
  
  every body knows is a remedy for all things. He happened one day to
  
  
  hear an indian doctor give it as his opinion that a certain plant,
  
  
  which grew in the neighbourhood of Jonathan's _