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An authentic account of the embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the court of the Emperor of China, in the years 1794 and 1795 : (subsequent to that of the Earl of Macartney.) Containing a description of several parts of the Chinese empire, unknown to Europeans / taken from the journal of André Everard van Braam. Translated from the original of M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-Mery.

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