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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Page xxii
... colours about it , like those tints which are found in the jelly - fish . It impelled itself forward lashing the water with its tail , and swam ex- actly on a level with the surface . I , at first , thought that it was dead , but was ...
... colours about it , like those tints which are found in the jelly - fish . It impelled itself forward lashing the water with its tail , and swam ex- actly on a level with the surface . I , at first , thought that it was dead , but was ...
Page xxix
... colours are not unlike a herring's , with the addition of the two long filmy fins which sup- port the animal in its short flights . This , how- ever , was , as we were assured , a very small speci- men , not exceeding the size of a ...
... colours are not unlike a herring's , with the addition of the two long filmy fins which sup- port the animal in its short flights . This , how- ever , was , as we were assured , a very small speci- men , not exceeding the size of a ...
Page xxx
... colours . Captain Man- ning expressed some little surprise at this meeting . The Danish flag , he said , was almost unknown in India , whither , apparently , this vessel was bound . The Danes have indeed a nominal factory , and a Consul ...
... colours . Captain Man- ning expressed some little surprise at this meeting . The Danish flag , he said , was almost unknown in India , whither , apparently , this vessel was bound . The Danes have indeed a nominal factory , and a Consul ...
Page xlv
... colour and smoothness of its skin . The water which it blew through its nostrils appeared in a form some- thing different from what I had expected . I had imagined , I hardly know why , that it was to be a small high slender jet - d'eau ...
... colour and smoothness of its skin . The water which it blew through its nostrils appeared in a form some- thing different from what I had expected . I had imagined , I hardly know why , that it was to be a small high slender jet - d'eau ...
Page xlvii
... colours , and proved to be a brig belonging to the Mauritius , and bound thither , sixty - four days from Bourdeaux . Captain Manning sent a boat on board , with the purser , partly to learn whether she was to touch at the Cape , partly ...
... colours , and proved to be a brig belonging to the Mauritius , and bound thither , sixty - four days from Bourdeaux . Captain Manning sent a boat on board , with the purser , partly to learn whether she was to touch at the Cape , partly ...
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