Excerpt from The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton, K. C. M. G., F. R. G. S., Etc Burton enters the Indian army - Outfitting - Departure from England The voyage - Arrival at Bombay The cadets' quarters - Type of Sepoy - Sanitary bungalows - Hindustani Burton joins the 18th Bombay Native Infantry - The journey to Baroda Gujarat Baroda Life at Baroda Sport Burton's company - Two months' leave - An examination in Hindustani - The south-west monsoon - Hinduism - Appointed interpreter - First visit to Sind - The ...
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Excerpt from The True Life of Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton, K. C. M. G., F. R. G. S., Etc Burton enters the Indian army - Outfitting - Departure from England The voyage - Arrival at Bombay The cadets' quarters - Type of Sepoy - Sanitary bungalows - Hindustani Burton joins the 18th Bombay Native Infantry - The journey to Baroda Gujarat Baroda Life at Baroda Sport Burton's company - Two months' leave - An examination in Hindustani - The south-west monsoon - Hinduism - Appointed interpreter - First visit to Sind - The cantonment at Karachi Alligators - Charging the Arabian Sea - Camel-riding - Quarters at Ghara The Sind Survey assistantship Surveying the Phul???li and Guni rivers - Falconry Burton as a Bayzal His Persian love - Her death - A tour in Sind - Resignation of the Sind Survey assistantship - The beginning of the Sikh war - Down with fever - Goa - Old Goa - The abduction of the sub-prioress Calicut The Malabar coast - Ootacamund Examination in Persian - First thoughts of the Pilgrimage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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