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Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan (Asia Africa and Europe During the Years 1799 to 1803)

1814

The Author of these Travels was so well-known in London in the years 1800 and 1801 under the title of The Persian Prince and has so clearly related the principal incidents of his life in the introduction and course of his narrative that it is unnecessary to enter further into his personal history in this place; and it only remains for me to give some account of the Manuscript from which the Tr [...] The great and the rich intoxicated with pride and luxury and puffed up with the vanity of their possessions consider universal science as comprehended in the circle of their own scanty acquirements and limited knowledge; while the poor and common people from the want of leisure and overpowered by the difficulty of procuring a livelihood have not time to attend to their personal concerns much [...] To these may be added the quantity of stinking salt fish and putrid eggs of which the sea store is composed and the absurd custom of the crew lying on the wet decks ; with a total want of disciline in the sailors and science in the officers. [...] Description of the climate and of the country in the vicinity of the Cape ; also of the fruits vegetables animals and other productions. [...] There are only two considerable stream: of water in the island ; and as the vegetation is therefore entirely dependent on the rain it often happens that; from a want of moisture the grass for the cattle and the produce of the gardens are destroyed which causes much distress to the inhabitants.
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I
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Chapter II
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Chapter III
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Chapter IV
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Chapter V
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Chapter VI
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Chapter VII
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Chapter VIII
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Chapter IX
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Chapter X
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Chapter XI
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Chapter XII
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Chapter XIII
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Chapter XIV
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Chapter XV
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Chapter XVI
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Chapter XVII
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Chapter XVIII
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Chapter XIX
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Chapter XX
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Chapter XXI
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Chapter XXII
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Chapter XXIII
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Chapter XXIV
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Chapter XXV
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Chapter XXVI
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Chapter XXVII
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Chapter XXVIII
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Chapter XXIX
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Chapter XXX
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Chapter XXXI
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Chapter XXXII
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Chapter XXXIII
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Chapter XXXIV
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Chapter XXXV
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Chapter XXXVI
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Appendix
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