------------------------------------------------------------------------ 跋 男子志在四方，足跡不出里巷者，其人必無以廣見聞而增膽識。 景周表弟居於 泉之廈島，癸卯歲負笈抵省，不以𪜬學淺，執弟子禮甚恭，是不遠數百里而 遊 也。其爲人倜儻不羣，胸次爽朗，𪜬深喜之。歸家後二年，受外國花旗聘，舌耕海 外，是不遠數萬里而逰也。𪜬聞之益喜，知此行乘風破浪，必有以長 其學問，擴 其胸懷矣。春間浮海，旋卽以所著《西海紀逰草》郵寄於𪜬。披閱之下，其中徃來之 跋涉，遭際之竒異，以及人情土俗、物產天時，無不一一 詳記，使人了然於目， 了然於心。窺見一斑，其文思不大有進哉！至於不避艱險，營救潮人，實出於血 性，尤爲不負斯行矣。 表弟孝於親，奔走海外，常 以不能承歡𦡀下爲悲，且述 其祖妣生平苦節，以誌不㤀，其天性之肫摯，不可想見哉？ 巳酉十月望後，愚表兄周見三謹跋 PageImage [西海紀遊跋 Postscript] 跋 景周勇於遊，嘗附賈舶遠涉九萬里，至北亞墨利加之花旂國。今春歸來，出所著自 序一篇，風土夷情，探訪繙譯，旣詳且確復爲韻語五百言，託寄深矣。 時有潮州 民船被夷商誘去，殘害死者甚夥。適其船遭風失道至花旂，景周乃爲營救二十六 人，得脫斯難，聞者義之。筆墨之妙，猶餘事也。 巳酉清和歗雲梅識于鹭江寄舫 PageImage [西海紀遊跋 一 Postscript 1] PageImage [書背 Book Back] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Images of the Original Publication in New York Public Library 藏於紐約公共圖書館的珍本照片 PageImage [Left: the spine of the volume in which the book is bound with other books and pamphlets. Right: the volume's inside.] PageImage [Left: the volume's table of contents. Right: the book's original card-catalog record in New York Public Library.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Great Curiosity Coming to this Port--A Yankee Speculation New York Daily Tribune February 6, 1847, p.1 It appears that a new visitor may shortly be expected in these parts: /Novel Speculation/.--An enterprising Yankee at Canton has recently built a Chinese Junk of 300 tons fitted and rigged entirely after the Chinese mode, which he intends taking to New York, loading her with every species of China knicknacs, curiosities, etc. to be sold on board after arrival off that city. He takes also a Chinese crew, a theatrical and juggling company, males and females, and everything curious, illustrative of the manners and customs of the Celestials. The junk will have canvas sails and a Christian rudder to make her suitable for the long voyage, but upon arrival at the Narrows, every thing foreign will be replaced by Chinese articles, mat sails, clumsy rudder and all, and the junk anchor off the city in her entire oriental costume and build, where she will remain as a show shop, sale room and mountebank exhibition. It is expected she will make the passage in five months. The cost of the whole affair will be about $30,000, and the “cute” proprietor will undoubtedly realize a large fortune. After having exhausted the United States, he has been offered $30,000 to deliver his junk in England. The Manhattanese will stare as broadly at the strange sight of a cruiser from the flowery land sailing up their noble river, as did the aborigines when old Hendrick Hudson astonished their unsophisticated senses by a display of his Dutch canvas in their bay. The junks are said to be good sea boats, and nothing worse than delay is feared in the voyage. We only wonder some one never thought of it before. The Chinese Junk Keying New York Daily Tribune