Voyage In The Indian Ocean And To Bengal Undertaken In The Years 1789 And 1790 Comprising An Account Of The Sechelles Islands And Trincomale To Which Is Added A Voyage In The Red Sea Translated From The French

Author : L. De Grandpre
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ISBN 13 : 9781330827888
Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the Year 1790 written by L. De Grandpre and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the Year 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles-Islands and Trincomale; The Character and Arts of the People of India; With Some Remarkable Religious Rites of the Inhabitants of Bengal; To Which Is Added, a Voyage in the Red Sea; Including a Description of Mocha I Was at the Isle of France in the year 1793, with a vessel too large and too sharp for the country. Not being able to dispose of her, I resolved on a trip to Bengal, where I hoped to find a good price and a ready market, though her construction was ill adapted to the navigation of the Ganges. But appearances being in her favour, this defect I trusted would be overlooked, and I was not mistaken. I accordingly prepared for my departure, and was soon ready for sea. Several motives, and economy among the rest, determined me to discharge ail my Europeans, and work the (hip with black Indians, known by the name of Lascars; but, finding it impossible to procure them, I was under the necessity of putting up with thirty Manillese, whose pusillanimity and want of skill rendered the passage extremely difficult. The first vexation I experienced was their causing me to miss the harbour of the Isle of Bourbon, where I intended to have taken in fresh provisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.