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Chapter 1: THE EAST INDIA VADE-MECUM
By Thomas Williamson
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A practical handbook for gentlemen preparing to serve in India, offering detailed, experience-based advice on voyage planning and shipboard life, stopovers and navigation, and arrival procedures at Madras and Calcutta. It catalogs local measures, coinage, taverns to avoid, and a thorough classification of native servants with their duties and management; estimates typical expenses, recommends language and reference works, and treats health, provisioning, and household arrangements. Interspersed travel notes describe ports, islands, and maritime hazards, while guidance on social conduct, hiring, and practical equipment aims to orient newcomers to the climate, customs, and everyday administration of European households abroad.

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Title: The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2)

Author: Thomas Williamson

Release date: October 31, 2016 [eBook #53400]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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THE
EAST INDIA
VADE-MECUM

OR
COMPLETE GUIDE
TO
GENTLEMEN INTENDED FOR THE
CIVIL, MILITARY, OR NAVAL SERVICE
OF THE
Hon. East India Company.
BY
CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON
Author of ‘The Wild Sports of the East.’
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
London:
PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARRY, and KINGSBURY,
Booksellers to the Honorable East India Company,
7,
LEADENHALL-STREET
1810.
Printed by Turner and Harwood, St. John’s Square,
London.
TO THE
HON. COURT OF DIRECTORS,
OF THE
East India Company

HONORABLE SIRS,

A work professedly undertaken with the view to promote the welfare, and to facilitate the progress, of those young gentlemen who may, from time to time, be appointed to situations under your several Presidencies, will, I flatter myself, receive from your Honorable Court that encouragement the importance of the subject solicits, and to which my own good intentions may justly offer a claim. Under your auspices, my labors cannot fail to prove of public utility, as well as to reward that zeal, and that assiduity, with which they have proceeded, under the alluring hope of meriting the approbation of your Honorable Court.

I have the honor to be,
HONORABLE SIRS,
Your most obedient Servant,
THOMAS WILLIAMSON

London, January 1, 1810.