The Peoples and Politics of the Far East (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Peoples and Politics of the Far East: Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and MalayaTotal, cash, say forty-three Mexican dollars, plus travelling expenses and food. The price of the horses included grooms. The cash, by the way - miserable, battered. Verdigris-covered coins, apparently compounded of an alloy of tin and dirt - have actually been debased by the Korean Government for illicit profit, while they bear on them such gracious inscriptions as Used for Public Benefit, and Enrich the People.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.