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Travels in India Including Sinde and the Punjab

1845

Embarkation in the war steamer Zenobia and departure for Kurrachee.—Fearful ravages of the cholera.—Dangerous landing on the coast at Kurrachee.—Kurrachee.—Alligator Pond Maggar Talao.— Sin de under the Hindoo princes.— Dominion of the Moguls.—The Ameers of the family of the Talpooris.—Inhabitants of Sinde.—The Belooches.—Life and mode of government of the Ameers.—Language of the inhabitants of [...] In the markets we were struck with the peculiarities and the anmated manners of the natives of the South contrasted with the calm serious deportment of the English in their scarlet uniforms and the Scotch in their Highland dress. [...] The nearer we approached the Nile the fuller of life and activity was the scene in the numerous craft on the canal and in the large encamments of troops on shore. [...] As the sun was sinking into the ocean the ship's bell was tolled ; the sailors dressed in their best suit carried the corpse on a simple bier charged with cannon balls and covered with a flag to the side of the vessel : here the catain having read the incomparable burial service and pronounced the blessing the sailors lowered the body of their comrade into its ocean-grave. [...] stretch far into the sea : the northern of these is the rocky promontory of Malabar Point and the southern the narrow Colabah is of coral formation and scarcely rises above the surface of the water.
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Pages
291
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146165
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Frontmatter
iii-xv H. Lioyd view
Letter I. To Alexander Von Humboldt
1-30 H. Lioyd view
Letter II. To Alexander Von Humboldt
31-73 H. Lioyd view
Letter III. To Charles Ritter
74-123 H. Lioyd view
Letter IV. To Alexander Von Humboldt
124-157 H. Lioyd view
Letter V. To Alexander Von Humboldt
158-238 H. Lioyd view
Letter VI. To Carl Ritter
239-256 H. Lioyd view
Letter VII. To Alexander Von Humboldt
257-278 H. Lioyd view

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