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RECOLLECTIONS OF INDIA.

CHAPTER I.

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ;
Man marks the earth with ruin-his control
Stops with the shore; upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own,

When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,

He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan

Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown."

BYRON.

Introduction

and habits.

Glance at Porto Santo. Procellaria pelagica. Their food Halothuria Physalis. Exocetus Volitans. Their visits to the English coast. Vast fields of Sea-weed. A man overboard. Mada.

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Sunday on the ocean.
Her deck passengers.

Sorrow of the crew.
Our sea service.
Bombay harbour.

Have the sharks eaten him?
The Sesostris steam-Frigate.
Land Sharks and servants. First impressions of India. Vasco del
Gama. Moguls. Portuguese and Charles the Second. Situation of
Bombay. Strange people. Goa. What have we done for India?
Reflections, &c., &c., &c.

A VOYAGE to India has often been described; and there is, in truth, little variety in the every-day scenes on board a large vessel. The passengers you meet

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