!['Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' [‎207] (272/360)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023463357.0x000001/V 7506_0280.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' [‎207] (272/360)")
'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' [207] (272/360)
The record is made up of 1 volume (270 pages). It was created in 1785. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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[ 207 ]
larly in dates. The commandant or Arab go
vernor, upon our arrival fent us a prefent of
preferved dates and bread. We favv feveral large
flocks of fheep and goats, and bought a iheep for
four dollars j they aflced half a dollar apiece for
fmall fowls, which it feems are very fcarce ; the
trees in the neighbourhood of the town feem to
cover a fpace of near fix miles, but there is no
pafture for the cattle, excepting fome fern that
grows between the trees ; the foil is a light fand,
which perhaps is the reafon the people in gene
ral have bad eyes, for when the wind blows vio
lently from the s. e. it raifes the fand, and is
" faid to affeft their health as well as their eyes j
the fumyel or poifonous wind that blows in July
and Auguft comes from that quarter, t/arly in
the morning; about a dozen of thofe people who
live bycatching of antelopes came intoour camp;
in language as well as in features, they appear
to be a very diftin£t people from any Arabs I
ever faw, by whom they are treated in the fame
manner as we treat our gypfies.
D ecember 3d. The Sheick being told that
a large body of hoftile Arabs were on the road,
fent fome people to treat with them, and defired
us to remain at Rahaly, until his meflengers
returned.
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Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates , authored by Colonel James Capper, published in London, and printed for W Faden, Geographer to the King, Charing Cross; J Robson, in the New Bond Street; and R Sewell, in Cornhill.
Edition: The third edition, with alterations and additions
Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xxxvi); Octavo.
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- 'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:10, 1:38, 1:108, 108a:108b, 109:158, 158a:158b, 159:288, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
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