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 xlv
... young ; and rejoiced that no southern whaler was in sight . While we were gazing at these leviathans , one of the midshipmen caught a sea - bird on a hook ; it was said to be a Cape hen , " ( I believe a Gannet , ) a little larger than ...
... young ; and rejoiced that no southern whaler was in sight . While we were gazing at these leviathans , one of the midshipmen caught a sea - bird on a hook ; it was said to be a Cape hen , " ( I believe a Gannet , ) a little larger than ...
Page liii
... young men more particularly , are not healthy , and several absentees are remarked from every dinner . Mr. Shaw says that he has seldom found a ship a favourable situation either for pre- serving or recovering health . The want of ...
... young men more particularly , are not healthy , and several absentees are remarked from every dinner . Mr. Shaw says that he has seldom found a ship a favourable situation either for pre- serving or recovering health . The want of ...
Page lxix
... young coppice wood , of a very fresh and vivid green . With a large glass I could distinguish something like deer grazing or lying down amid the swampy grass , and also some ruinous cottages and barn - like buildings . These are the ...
... young coppice wood , of a very fresh and vivid green . With a large glass I could distinguish something like deer grazing or lying down amid the swampy grass , and also some ruinous cottages and barn - like buildings . These are the ...
Page lxx
... young officers from venturing on shooting excursions so much as they otherwise would do , on a shore so dread- fully unwholesome as all these marshy islets are , under a sun , which even now intensely fierce , is standing over our heads ...
... young officers from venturing on shooting excursions so much as they otherwise would do , on a shore so dread- fully unwholesome as all these marshy islets are , under a sun , which even now intensely fierce , is standing over our heads ...
Page 27
... young Sahib should choose to ride , he was too young for that , — but , as the saees himself expressed it , " for the look of the thing . " This , however , rather belongs to old times , when as a gentleman assured me , he had himself ...
... young Sahib should choose to ride , he was too young for that , — but , as the saees himself expressed it , " for the look of the thing . " This , however , rather belongs to old times , when as a gentleman assured me , he had himself ...
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