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xiii C O N T E N T S OF VOL. I. | | Pages | | | | INSTRUCTIONS to Persons proceeding to India regarding articles to be provided, and precautions to be adopted . . . . | 1 | - | 30 | | Matter relating to embarking, and the usual customs on board-ship, sea-sickness, fishing at sea . . . . | 31 | - | 60 | | Foreign settlements, Brazils, crossing the Line . . . . | 6l | - | 68 | | Religious character of sailors, funerals at sea, Cape of Good Hope . . . . | 69 | - | 88 | | Of St. Helena . . . . . . | 89 | - | 109 | | Island of Johanna, and the Comoro Cluster | 110 | - | 119 | | Whale-fishery in. the Mozambique Channel . | 120 | - | 123 | | While-squalls, passage round Ceylon, and up the Coromandel coast . . . | 124 | - | 126 | | Madras, masoolah-boats, debashes, bad meats, localities...... | 127 | - | 138 | | General track tip the Bay, cautions necessary to be adopted by pilot-schooners at the Sand-heads...... | 139 | - | 141 | | General appearance of the coast, modes of getting up from the ship to Calcutta . | 142 | - | 154 | | Coins and weights in use, land measure | 155 | - | 169 | . |