Cutch; or, random sketches, taken during a residence in one of the northern provinces of Western India; interspersed with legends and traditions / By Mrs. Postans.

  • Young, Marianne
Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cutch; or, random sketches, taken during a residence in one of the northern provinces of Western India; interspersed with legends and traditions / By Mrs. Postans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TEDIOUS VOYAGE. all fatalists, are little inclined to make any exer¬ tion in the hour of danger, and commonly content themselves with counting their beads, and calling on their respective Gods ; rather, however, as it seems, from an impulse of physical fear, than from any hope of being succoured by providential xaid. After leaving the light-house of Bombay, the Cutch boats, as I have already described, stretch out to sea, and near the opposite coast of Katti- war, which is flat and sandy in its character ; and if I except the fortified town of Pore-Brender, and the celebrated Hindoo temple at D’waka, which I shall have occasion to mention elsewhere, this long line of coast is a mere burning solitude, un¬ diversified by any object calculated to excite the voyager’s interest. In sight of this dreary prospect the boat re¬ mains for days, tacking and anchoring, as calms or foul winds may require; until, after crossing the Gulf of Cutch, the white bastions of a walled town appear, and the little craft anchors safely, in the roadstead of Mandavie.
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