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A journey over land to India

Chapter 1: A JOURNEY OVER LAND TO INDIA,
By Donald Campbell
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A former cavalry officer composes a sequence of letters to his son narrating an overland journey toward India, combining episodic travelogue, personal anecdote and political observation. He records travel across the Low Countries, German states, Italy, and the eastern Mediterranean, with vivid descriptions of cities, religious institutions, customs, and inns; chronicles a shipwreck and subsequent imprisonment under Hyder Ali; and describes negotiations and transactions in the East. Alongside practical routes and incidents, the narrative offers reflections on religion, governance, superstition, and comparative manners, blending descriptive topography with moral and historical commentary.

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Title: A journey over land to India

Author: Donald Campbell

Release date: October 11, 2024 [eBook #74558]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Cullen, 1795

Credits: Peter Becker, KD Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Transcriber’s Note:

The few footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced.

In general, spelling has not been ‘corrected’, given the date of publication (1795). On occasion, though, more obvious errors (transposed or inverted letters, missing characters, and in one case apparently spuriously odd characters) have been corrected. See the note at the end of the text for more detail.

Following the Table of Contents, there is an Errata section, which includes (by page and line) edits for Parts I and III (though oddly not Part II), asking the reader to apply simple changes to the text. These changes have been have been made here. (See below.)

Other minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Again, see the note.

Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup.

Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in either the author’s errata or the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.

A
JOURNEY OVER LAND
TO
INDIA,

PARTLY
BY A ROUTE NEVER GONE BEFORE BY ANY EUROPEAN,
By Donald Campbell, of Barbreck, Esq.
WHO FORMERLY COMMANDED A REGIMENT OF CAVALRY IN THE SERVICE OF
HIS HIGHNESS THE NABOB OF THE CARNATIC.
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO HIS SON.
COMPREHENDING
HIS SHIPWRECK AND IMPRISONMENT WITH HYDER ALLI,
AND
HIS SUBSEQUENT NEGOCIATIONS AND TRANSACTIONS IN
THE EAST.
—————“HEU QUIBUS ILLE
JACTATUS FATIS.”
LONDON,
PRINTED FOR CULLEN AND COMPANY, NO. 54, PALL-MALL.
1795.