Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat

The introduction to Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat says that the writer, having become acquainted with the commerce of Asia and Eastern Africa, formed a conviction that considerable benefit would result from effecting treaties with some of the native powers bordering on the Indian ocean. The text says the National Museum is situated on each side of the Campo d'Acclamacao, and is open to the public on Thursdays.

The writer says that a board inscribed in Chinese characters with only the word God reminded the writer at once of what St. Paul found written on an altar at Athens, To the unknown God. The text names a mountain called Gunon-Gantang in the Perak country as the supposed Yama-puri. The writer found, in a small cell near Vung-chow, two chalk-fish painted green, suspended from the roof, and some pots containing half-burnt joss-sticks, and says that when they wish for success in fishing, offerings are made to the presiding Deity.