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
... thought that it was dead , but was soon satisfied to the contrary . The sailors seemed to regard it as a curiosity . The afternoon was cloudy , cold , and rainy , a bad summer's day in England , and what I should have still less ...
... thought that it was dead , but was soon satisfied to the contrary . The sailors seemed to regard it as a curiosity . The afternoon was cloudy , cold , and rainy , a bad summer's day in England , and what I should have still less ...
Page xxvi
... thought its discussion might , at all events , be ser- viceable to the educated part of my hearers , and I did not despair of making myself understood by the crew . I am inclined to hope that I succeeded with many of them . All were ...
... thought its discussion might , at all events , be ser- viceable to the educated part of my hearers , and I did not despair of making myself understood by the crew . I am inclined to hope that I succeeded with many of them . All were ...
Page xxix
... thought it right to interfere to check the harpoons and fishing - hooks of some of the crew . I am not strict in my notions of what is called the Christian Sabbath ; but the wanton destruction of animal life seems to be precisely one of ...
... thought it right to interfere to check the harpoons and fishing - hooks of some of the crew . I am not strict in my notions of what is called the Christian Sabbath ; but the wanton destruction of animal life seems to be precisely one of ...
Page xxxiii
... 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 Oriental name for the Turkish empire , -that " Secunder " is ...
... 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 Oriental name for the Turkish empire , -that " Secunder " is ...
Page xxxix
... thought I saw , a common white sea - gull , a bird in which I could hardly be mistaken , and which , in size and other respects , sufficiently differs from the Cape pigeons . It , however , rarely goes far from land , and is therefore ...
... thought I saw , a common white sea - gull , a bird in which I could hardly be mistaken , and which , in size and other respects , sufficiently differs from the Cape pigeons . It , however , rarely goes far from land , and is therefore ...
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