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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... 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 ...
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... thought its discussion might , at all events , be serviceable 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 very ...
... thought its discussion might , at all events , be serviceable 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 very ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 22 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA . Turkish ...
... 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 22 JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA . Turkish ...
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... thought I saw , a common white sea - gull , a bird in which I hardly could be mistaken , and which , in size and other circumstances , sufficiently differs from the Cape pigeons . It , however , rarely goes far from land , and is ...
... thought I saw , a common white sea - gull , a bird in which I hardly could be mistaken , and which , in size and other circumstances , sufficiently differs from the Cape pigeons . It , however , rarely goes far from land , and is ...
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