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'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎26] (51/562)

The record is made up of 1 volume (518 pages). It was created in 1866. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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Harries are the fame at Bengal, as Prop are at Bombay. Their women
do"u the drudgery at your houfes. and the men carry your
■ Niaddi and Pullie are two low cafts on the Malabar and who are
held in fuch contempt, that the other natives wil not fuffer them to come
near them When they have occafion to purchale any thing, they are
obliged to call aloud at a diftance, 'nd fet down thc.r balket w.th the money
in it then the feller advances, and puts m what they want, and after he is
lone' f om the fpot, the buyer comes, and carr.es .t away. T he.r common
employment is looking after cattle : they are never permuted to deep on the
emhTn in trees. If only the breath of one ot them were acc,dentally to
come' acrofs a Nier, the latter would not fail mftantly to put him to death.
To avoid this, when they fee a Nier coming towards them, they take care to
pet out of his way. They are never fuffered to come near the towns, but on
one particular day in the year, when they are fure to get together in crowds
and if they can befo fortunate as to throw dirt on any woman that palTes by,,
{he immediately becomes their flave, let her be of whatever caft .
S hagkelays , are fhoemakers, and held in the fame defpicable light on the
Coromandd coaft^ as the Niadde and PuUie are on the Malabar.
Thefe are the cap, by which the natives are diftinguifhed all over India j.
but thefe are alfo branched out into jb great a number ot diftin<5lions, that they
can hardly be enumerated •, tho' they all pay particular reipeft, and obferve
different forms of ceremony to calls of fuperior rank to themfelves. In
general, it is remarked, that whatever be the trade ot the father, the lame is
that of the fem i) fo that the families of boatmen, fifhermen, &£. are boat
men ami ftlhermen to all generations. Some cafts expofe their old, and their
fick in the ftreets, after they have been given over bjr the Brahmins ; others
carry them down to low water mark, and fill their nole, mouth, and ears with
mud, and thece leave them; where they are lure to be loon devoured f by
vultures, kites, crows, jackalls, dogs, &c. which abound in great numbers.
Another caji never eafe themfelves while the fun is the above horizon and by
way of prevention, keep a plug of dried mud in their fundament. The people
on the Coromandel coail, and efpecially at Fort St. Davidy believe that there
are a fet of philofophers in the mountains, who have the fecret of preferving
* The account here given of thefe five lad caJIs of Indians f puts ir.e in mind of another paf*
fage in the before quoted learned author.
" Difti Haldlchori funt inferioris generis Indi, qui ad viliora quacvis opera adiguntur, (ad.
mundandas Plateas, & evacuandas Cloacas, &c ;) eaque libenter fufcipiunt, dum Mauri &
Baneani talia recufant ne polkantur. Ifti etiam edunt cadaverofas beltiarum carnes, & nullum
cibi genus confcientiae ergo rccufant: unde norr.en Haldl-chur licitum edens. Illi propter opers .8
tc diaetam habentur impuri, ideoque neminem alium libenter tangunt, nec aliquis ab eis vult
tangi: & quia taitus inquinat polluirque, feperatlm vivunt ab omnibus aliis: quia quicunque
ab his taftus eft, tenetur habere moleRiam purificandi feipfum." H yde de Religione wterum.
Per/arum, cap. 34.
t Nam Magi vulgo fuos defunflos volucribus & fens exponebant & hodie exponunt. H ydi
cap. 34,
life ^

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A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.

Publication Details: London : Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773.

Ownership: With stamps of the India Board and India Board Library.

There are numerous illustrations and two maps in the volume:

  • a copy of a large folded map at the beginning of the volume, 'A Map of India together with a chart of the Indien Seas, to which the operations of Admiral Watson's Squadron were principally confined; and shewing the passages made by Commodore James from Madrass to Bombay in the years 1754 & 1755 ... By Thomas Kitchin, Hydrographer to his Majesty';
  • a map of the route from the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in Basra to Latakia, Syria, on the Mediterranean Coast 'Mr Ives's Route from Bassora to Latichea.
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1 volume (518 pages)
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There is a table of content at the beginning of the volume, detailing the arrangement of contents and page references (pages viii-xi) and a 'Table of Coins and Monies' (page xii).

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Dimensions: 280 mm x 220 mm.

Pagination: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xii); (1-506).

Condition: there is a large folded map, unfolding can be difficult withouth risk of tears.

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