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 xxxiii
... poor . " The last two lines are not in the original , which I thought , though perhaps I was wrong , ended too abruptly without some such moral . My little Emily will probably know , before she reads the above , that " Room " is the ...
... poor . " The last two lines are not in the original , which I thought , though perhaps I was wrong , ended too abruptly without some such moral . My little Emily will probably know , before she reads the above , that " Room " is the ...
Page xlv
... poor animals , which were supposed to be two old ones with one or more young ; and rejoiced that no southern whaler was in sight . While we were gazing at these leviathans , one of the midshipmen caught a sea - bird on a hook ; it was ...
... poor animals , which were supposed to be two old ones with one or more young ; and rejoiced that no southern whaler was in sight . While we were gazing at these leviathans , one of the midshipmen caught a sea - bird on a hook ; it was ...
Page liv
... poor man who was re- covering from the effects of a fall a few days before , which had threatened to affect his brain , was very intelligent , and grateful to God for his deliverance . The others were not so favourably disposed . I ...
... poor man who was re- covering from the effects of a fall a few days before , which had threatened to affect his brain , was very intelligent , and grateful to God for his deliverance . The others were not so favourably disposed . I ...
Page lvii
... poor lad has had a very tedious inter- mitting fever . Symptoms of our advanced progress are visible in the preparations making in the cutter , which Captain Manning is sheathing with zinc , and fitting up with masts and sails for the ...
... poor lad has had a very tedious inter- mitting fever . Symptoms of our advanced progress are visible in the preparations making in the cutter , which Captain Manning is sheathing with zinc , and fitting up with masts and sails for the ...
Page lxiv
... poor boys apprenticed to Captain Manning by the Marine So- ciety , had fallen from the mizen - gaff , and that one of the midshipmen , Gower not Davy , as at first supposed , was knocked over by him in his fall ; the boy only rose for a ...
... poor boys apprenticed to Captain Manning by the Marine So- ciety , had fallen from the mizen - gaff , and that one of the midshipmen , Gower not Davy , as at first supposed , was knocked over by him in his fall ; the boy only rose for a ...
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