Excerpt from Recollections of Baron Gros's Embassy to China and Japan in 1857-58 A few days afterwards the names of the Marquis de Trevise and the Vicomte de Flavigny were added to the list of the members of the embassy and com pleted it. Lastly, M. De Besplas, a lieutenant in the navy, who had served in the Crimean campaign, and had been with Prince Napoleon in his, expedition to the polar seas, was, at the special request of Baron Gros, added as a supernumerary to the naval Officers of the frigate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.