Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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... DACCA . Ruins - Visit from the Nawâb - Visit returned - Death of Mr. Stowe - Consecration of Church and Burial - ground -Confirmation - Armenian Archbishop - Farewell Visit to Nawab - Meer Israf Ali CHAPTER VIII . DACCA TO FURREEDPOOR ...
... DACCA . Ruins - Visit from the Nawâb - Visit returned - Death of Mr. Stowe - Consecration of Church and Burial - ground -Confirmation - Armenian Archbishop - Farewell Visit to Nawab - Meer Israf Ali CHAPTER VIII . DACCA TO FURREEDPOOR ...
Page 107
... Dacca , which was to be the first station on my Visitation . After about two hours squabbling with the owner and navigators of the vessel , we got under weigh , with a fine south breeze and the flood- tide . Archdeacon Corrie , with his ...
... Dacca , which was to be the first station on my Visitation . After about two hours squabbling with the owner and navigators of the vessel , we got under weigh , with a fine south breeze and the flood- tide . Archdeacon Corrie , with his ...
Page 113
... Dacca , and its vicinity . They are wild and odd - looking people , light - limbed , and lean , and very black , but strong and muscular , and all young men , with a fiercer eye , and far less civil man- ner than the Hindoos of Calcutta ...
... Dacca , and its vicinity . They are wild and odd - looking people , light - limbed , and lean , and very black , but strong and muscular , and all young men , with a fiercer eye , and far less civil man- ner than the Hindoos of Calcutta ...
Page 115
... Dacca , and we had some rea- son to hope we might find it navigable at present . We anchored therefore at the mouth , and sent the jolly - boat with the Serang and Abdullah ' , to make enquiry at Seebpoor , a place where toll is paid ...
... Dacca , and we had some rea- son to hope we might find it navigable at present . We anchored therefore at the mouth , and sent the jolly - boat with the Serang and Abdullah ' , to make enquiry at Seebpoor , a place where toll is paid ...
Page 117
... Dacca by this course will occasion , I am sorry to go through a part of the country which I am told not many Europeans traverse , and where there are no stations or other usual places of intercourse between them and the natives . We set ...
... Dacca by this course will occasion , I am sorry to go through a part of the country which I am told not many Europeans traverse , and where there are no stations or other usual places of intercourse between them and the natives . We set ...
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Abdullah Allahabad animals appearance arrived attend bamboos bank Barrackpoor beautiful Benares Bengal birds boat boatmen Boglipoor boys Brahmin breeze building Buxar Calcutta Captain Christian Chunar Church colour Company's considerable Corrie crew crowd Dacca dandees deck Dinapoor distance dress England English European extremely favourable Ganges garden Ghazeepoor Government handsome heard Hindoo Hindoostanee Hooghly indigo interest JOURNAL kind land less looking Lord Lord Amherst miles Monghyr morning mosque Mussulmans native Nawâb neighbourhood neighbouring never night nullah o'clock officers ornamented pagoda passed Patna persons pinnace poor prayers present pretty Puharrees pulwars resembling rice river round ruins sails seems seen sent Sepoys Serang servants shewed ship shore side silver sticks soon sort stream Sunderbunds supposed suttees thing tion to-day told trees tyger usual vessel village VOYAGE TO INDIA walked whole wind young