Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825: With Notes Upon Ceylon, [and] an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, Volume 1B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1985 |
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Page xxxi
... officers concerning foreign seamen , to find that the American sailors bear a better character now with those of our own country than I had under- stood , or than they really used to do . They are not so grievously addicted to lying as ...
... officers concerning foreign seamen , to find that the American sailors bear a better character now with those of our own country than I had under- stood , or than they really used to do . They are not so grievously addicted to lying as ...
Page lxi
... officers ; but I could not catch any thing in the breeze more than usual . We are all now in good spirits again , and the officers , more particularly , rejoice in having ascertained the latitude correctly , a circumstance agreeable at ...
... officers ; but I could not catch any thing in the breeze more than usual . We are all now in good spirits again , and the officers , more particularly , rejoice in having ascertained the latitude correctly , a circumstance agreeable at ...
Page 324
... officers leave England , the little control to which they are afterwards subjected , and the very few opportunities afforded to most of them of ever hearing a sermon , or joining in public prayer , might be expected to heathenize them ...
... officers leave England , the little control to which they are afterwards subjected , and the very few opportunities afforded to most of them of ever hearing a sermon , or joining in public prayer , might be expected to heathenize them ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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