Aleppo continued. Frequent Broils in the Streets. Aleppo continued. Coffee-Houses. Story-Tellers. Aleppo continued. Puppet-shews. Karaghuse, or Punch, his Freedom of Speech and Satire. Disagreeable Adventure, which occasions a sudden De- A plan of Travelling settled. Tartar Guide. Depar Description of Tartar Guide. His conduct. Arrival at Diarbeker. Padan Aram of Moses. Scripture ground. Reflections. Description of the City of Diarbeker. Whimsical Incident occasioned by Laughing. Oddi Strange Traits in the Tartar's Character. Buys Wo- men, ties them up in Sacks, and carries them fifty miles. Reflections on the Slave Trade. Apostrophe to the Champion of the oppressed Africans. Extravagant Conduct of the Tartar, which he afterwards explains satisfactorily. Extraordinary Incident and Address of the Tartar, in the Case of Santons. Explanation of the Affair by the Santons. Bigotry. ler. Arrives at Mosul. Description thereof. A Story-Tel- Arrives at Bagdad. Whimsical Conduct of the Guide. Character of the Turks. Short Account of Bagdad. Effects of Opium. Ruins of Babylon. Leaves Bag- dad. Attacked by Robbers on the Tigris. Arrives at Bassora. Account of that City. Leaves it, Made Prisoner by some of Hyder Alli's Troops. Hu- Mr. Hall's Misery aggravated by the Loss of a Minia- ture which hung at his Bosom. Sent under a guard Arrives at Hydernagur, the Capital of the Province of History of Hyat Sahib. Called upon to enter into the Pressed to enter into the Service of Hyder Alli. Refu sal. Threatened to be hanged. Actually suspended, but let down again. Still persists in a Refusal, and determined to undergo any Death rather than enter. Projects a Plan to excite a Revolt, and escape. Projects to escape defeated. Laid in Irons. Intolera- ble Hardships. Death of Mr. Hall. Melancholy Situation. Cruelty. Released from Prison. Account of Hyder, and the East India Politics in East India Politics continued. Account of Hyder, and Indian Politics continued. Ge、 neral Mathews's Descent on the Malabar coast. Mounts the Ghauts. Approaches towards Hyderna- gur. Author's Delight at getting into the open Air. Delivered by an unexpected encounter from his guards. Returns to the Fort, and proposes to the Jemadar to give it up to the English. Proceeds to the English Camp. Meeting with General Mathews. Returns to the Fort Unable to proceed. Sets off for Bengal. Cundapore. LETTER LIX. Page 308. Trichinopoly. Tanjore. Burning of Gentoo Women with the Bodies of their Husbands. Negapatnam.` Leaves Negapatnam. Taken by a French Frigate. Hor- Passage to Bengal. Negociation for Hyat Sahib. Mr. Hastings. Sir John Macpherson. Hears from Mac- auley, Sir John's Secretary, of the Servant he lost at Trieste. Jagranaut Pagoda. Vizagapatnam. Masulipatam. Arrives at Madras. Determines to pro- ceed on Hyat's Business to Bombay. Reaches Palam- cotah. Takes sick. Recovering, crawls to Anjengo, and thence to Bombay. Resolves to return again to Adventures with a young Lady. Surat. China. Bath AN OVERLAND JOURNEY TO INDIA, &c. My dear Frederick, LETTER I. THE tenderness of a fond father's heart admonishes me, that I should but poorly requite the affectionate solicitude you have so often expressed, to become acquainted with the particulars of my journey over land to India, if I any longer with-held from you an account of that singular and eventful period of my life, I confess to you, my dear boy, that often when I have endeavoured to amuse you with the leading incidents and extraordinary vicissitudes of fortune which chequered the whole of that series of adventures, and observed the eager attention with which, young though you were, you listened to the recital, the tender sensibility you disclosed at some passages, and the earnest desire you expressed that "I should the whole relate," I have felt an almost irresistable impulse to indulge you with an accurate and faithful narrative, and have more than once sat down at my bureau for the purpose: but sober and deliberate reflection suggested that it was too soon, and that, by complying with your desire at such a very early period of your life, I should but render the great end I proposed by it abortive, frustrate the instruction which I meant to convey, and impress the mere incident on your memory, while the moral deducible from it must necessarily evaporate, and leave no trace, or rather excite no idea, in a mind not sufficiently matured for the conception of abstract principles, or prepared by practice for the deduction of moral inferences. I am aware that there are many people, who, contemplating only the number of your days, would consider my undertaking this arduous task, and offering it to B |