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 xlii
... observed , indeed , that many of the seamen , though they did not join us , looked on after they had left the ... observe that they had all religious books in their hands in the course of the evening , and that they appeared , indeed ...
... observed , indeed , that many of the seamen , though they did not join us , looked on after they had left the ... observe that they had all religious books in their hands in the course of the evening , and that they appeared , indeed ...
Page lvii
... observed that such a spectacle alone was worth the whole voyage from England . One circumstance in the scene struck me as different from all which I had been led to expect in a tropical sunset . I mean , lviii JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO ...
... observed that such a spectacle alone was worth the whole voyage from England . One circumstance in the scene struck me as different from all which I had been led to expect in a tropical sunset . I mean , lviii JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO ...
Page lx
... observation could be taken this day ( September 25. ) During the early part of the morning we lay completely becalmed , surrounded with very aweful and magnificent thunder - storms , which swept past us in all directions , but without ...
... observation could be taken this day ( September 25. ) During the early part of the morning we lay completely becalmed , surrounded with very aweful and magnificent thunder - storms , which swept past us in all directions , but without ...
Page lxvii
... observed . At length , about eleven o'clock , a vessel was really seen approaching , and , on being hailed , an- swered , " the Cecilia pilot schooner . " The cutter soon afterwards came to our side with one of the branch pilots on ...
... observed . At length , about eleven o'clock , a vessel was really seen approaching , and , on being hailed , an- swered , " the Cecilia pilot schooner . " The cutter soon afterwards came to our side with one of the branch pilots on ...
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... observations struck me forcibly ; first , that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable to the human eye ... observation was , how entirely the idea of indelicacy , which would naturally belong to such naked figures as those now ...
... observations struck me forcibly ; first , that the deep bronze tint is more naturally agreeable to the human eye ... observation was , how entirely the idea of indelicacy , which would naturally belong to such naked figures as those now ...
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