Books: Chinese Pirates

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Not simply because it recounts an experience few men would care to have, but because its skeleton narrative is covered with the flesh & blood of homely detail, Pirate Junk deserves a high place in the true-story library. When Author Johnson read part of his diary to his companions, they grumbled that he had left out everything important and put in irrelevancies. Plain readers will not agree with them.

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