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 xxviii
... continues south - west ; our latitude 20 ° . 57 ' . longitude 24 ° . 32. The favourable breeze almost became a gale towards night ; but we had less roll- ing than on former occasions . JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA . xxix July 11.
... continues south - west ; our latitude 20 ° . 57 ' . longitude 24 ° . 32. The favourable breeze almost became a gale towards night ; but we had less roll- ing than on former occasions . JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO INDIA . xxix July 11.
Page xxx
... night was very blustering and rainy , and the motion of the vessel unpleasant . Our progress , however , continued rapid , and the wind favourable , A sail was , about ten , seen a - head , steering the same course with ourselves . On ...
... night was very blustering and rainy , and the motion of the vessel unpleasant . Our progress , however , continued rapid , and the wind favourable , A sail was , about ten , seen a - head , steering the same course with ourselves . On ...
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... night beautiful , just such an one as a poet or a painter would wish to describe or represent at sea . I was pleased , while looking over Gilchrist's guide , with a little Ode by Koodrut , of which the following is an imitation ...
... night beautiful , just such an one as a poet or a painter would wish to describe or represent at sea . I was pleased , while looking over Gilchrist's guide , with a little Ode by Koodrut , of which the following is an imitation ...
Page xxxv
... night was very beautiful ; and from our situa- tion on the globe , we had the opportunity of seeing many of the most considerable constellations of both hemispheres . Those of the northern heaven fall far short of the other in number ...
... night was very beautiful ; and from our situa- tion on the globe , we had the opportunity of seeing many of the most considerable constellations of both hemispheres . Those of the northern heaven fall far short of the other in number ...
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... night , and the main top - gallant sail was split in pieces . Two circumstances struck me as remark- able this evening . First , that when the gale grew strong about sun - set , the sky was clear in the wind's while to leeward of us ...
... night , and the main top - gallant sail was split in pieces . Two circumstances struck me as remark- able this evening . First , that when the gale grew strong about sun - set , the sky was clear in the wind's while to leeward of us ...
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Abdullah Allahabad animals appearance arrived attend bamboos bank Barrackpoor beautiful Benares Bengal birds boat boatmen Boglipoor boys Brahmin breeze building Buxar Calcutta Captain Christian Chunar Church colour Company's considerable Corrie crew crowd Dacca dandees deck Dinapoor distance dress England English European extremely favourable Ganges garden Ghazeepoor Government handsome heard Hindoo Hindoostanee Hooghly indigo interest JOURNAL kind land less looking Lord Lord Amherst miles Monghyr morning mosque Mussulmans native Nawâb neighbourhood neighbouring never night nullah o'clock officers ornamented pagoda passed Patna persons pinnace poor prayers present pretty Puharrees pulwars resembling rice river round ruins sails seems seen sent Sepoys Serang servants shewed ship shore side silver sticks soon sort stream Sunderbunds supposed suttees thing tion to-day told trees tyger usual vessel village VOYAGE TO INDIA walked whole wind young