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 xi
... Ships - Village- Maldivian Vessels - Garden Reach - Approach to Cal- cutta - Arrival - Old Government House - Native House- hold ....... CHAPTER II . CALCUTTA . Description of Calcutta - Cathedral - Environs - Quay- Child - murder ...
... Ships - Village- Maldivian Vessels - Garden Reach - Approach to Cal- cutta - Arrival - Old Government House - Native House- hold ....... CHAPTER II . CALCUTTA . Description of Calcutta - Cathedral - Environs - Quay- Child - murder ...
Page xvii
... ship manned , and fired a salute in compliment to us . The Grenville weighed anchor soon after we were on board , but met with an adverse wind , and advanced a very little way down the river . On the 17th we had again baffling winds ...
... ship manned , and fired a salute in compliment to us . The Grenville weighed anchor soon after we were on board , but met with an adverse wind , and advanced a very little way down the river . On the 17th we had again baffling winds ...
Page xviii
... ship was hardly perceptible . In the course of the day I had proposed to read evening prayers regularly , which was received with readiness on the part of Captain Manning . Ac- cordingly , after tea , I repeated , with the party as ...
... ship was hardly perceptible . In the course of the day I had proposed to read evening prayers regularly , which was received with readiness on the part of Captain Manning . Ac- cordingly , after tea , I repeated , with the party as ...
Page xxii
... ship , which some of the sailors called a devil - fish , others , I believe more correctly , a sun - fish . It was a very large and nearly circular flat fish , with , apparently , some rather vivid colours about it , like those tints ...
... ship , which some of the sailors called a devil - fish , others , I believe more correctly , a sun - fish . It was a very large and nearly circular flat fish , with , apparently , some rather vivid colours about it , like those tints ...
Page xxiii
... thus offered of sending our letters to the latter place , and thence to England . The poop of the ship would be no bad place for air , study , or recreation , ( it is indeed used as such xxiv JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA . by most.
... thus offered of sending our letters to the latter place , and thence to England . The poop of the ship would be no bad place for air , study , or recreation , ( it is indeed used as such xxiv JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA . by most.
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