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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... heads and shins , were universal ; and we were only com- forted by the assurance that we had seen , probably , the worst of the ship's rolling , and that , even off the Cape of Good Hope , nothing more than this was reasonably to be ...
... heads and shins , were universal ; and we were only com- forted by the assurance that we had seen , probably , the worst of the ship's rolling , and that , even off the Cape of Good Hope , nothing more than this was reasonably to be ...
Page xxx
... head , steering the same course with ourselves . On near- ing her she shewed Danish colours . Captain Man- ning expressed some little surprise at this meeting . The Danish flag , he said , was almost unknown in India , whither ...
... head , steering the same course with ourselves . On near- ing her she shewed Danish colours . Captain Man- ning expressed some little surprise at this meeting . The Danish flag , he said , was almost unknown in India , whither ...
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... head cried out , " breakers . " They turned out , however , to be only the reflection of the sun on the waves . So that the existence or situation of this danger is still as dubious as ever . August 24. - A southern breeze sprung up ...
... head cried out , " breakers . " They turned out , however , to be only the reflection of the sun on the waves . So that the existence or situation of this danger is still as dubious as ever . August 24. - A southern breeze sprung up ...
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... head , bearing N. W. about eighteen miles , and only dis- tinguishable , on this flat coast , from sails , by those who were previously aware of their forms and vici- nity ; three or four vessels were seen at the same time , supposed to ...
... head , bearing N. W. about eighteen miles , and only dis- tinguishable , on this flat coast , from sails , by those who were previously aware of their forms and vici- nity ; three or four vessels were seen at the same time , supposed to ...
Page lxx
... heads " in a hot and copper sky . " The stream of coffee - coloured water which surrounds us , sufficiently indicates by its tint the inundations which have supplied it . One of the first specimens of the manners of the country which ...
... heads " in a hot and copper sky . " The stream of coffee - coloured water which surrounds us , sufficiently indicates by its tint the inundations which have supplied it . One of the first specimens of the manners of the country which ...
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