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 India, Volume 1John Murray, 1828 |
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Page 21
... half starved , and abominably treated , and they spoke of the national temper , as shown in their seamen , as utterly unkind , unchristian , and unmanly . This is a sad picture , but they who gave it me were neither interested in ...
... half starved , and abominably treated , and they spoke of the national temper , as shown in their seamen , as utterly unkind , unchristian , and unmanly . This is a sad picture , but they who gave it me were neither interested in ...
Page 24
... half knots an hour , and to- day frequently ten and eleven . The motion is , of course , con- siderable , but the weather is very delightful . Yesterday was downright March weather , while to - day has all the freshness , mildness , and ...
... half knots an hour , and to- day frequently ten and eleven . The motion is , of course , con- siderable , but the weather is very delightful . Yesterday was downright March weather , while to - day has all the freshness , mildness , and ...
Page 28
... half an hour . I obtained a very favourable view of one of them , which struck me from its perfect resemblance to the grampus which I had seen before , both in shape , and the colour and smoothness of its skin . The water which it blew ...
... half an hour . I obtained a very favourable view of one of them , which struck me from its perfect resemblance to the grampus which I had seen before , both in shape , and the colour and smoothness of its skin . The water which it blew ...
Page 38
... half hour , keeping in from sixteen to twenty - nine fathom . All this part of Orixa , as I am assured by Major Sackville , who has him- self surveyed the coast , is very ill laid down in most charts . It is a large delta , formed by ...
... half hour , keeping in from sixteen to twenty - nine fathom . All this part of Orixa , as I am assured by Major Sackville , who has him- self surveyed the coast , is very ill laid down in most charts . It is a large delta , formed by ...
Page 57
... half , is a large but shallow lagoon of salt water , being the termination of the Sunderbunds , from which a canal is cut pretty nearly to the town , and towards which all the drainings of the city flow , what little difference of level ...
... half , is a large but shallow lagoon of salt water , being the termination of the Sunderbunds , from which a canal is cut pretty nearly to the town , and towards which all the drainings of the city flow , what little difference of level ...
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