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Title: Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales

Author: W. B. Cramp

Release Date: November 1, 2008 [EBook #27113]

Language: English

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NARRATIVE

OF A

VOYAGE TO INDIA;

OF A

SHIPWRECK

ON BOARD THE LADY CASTLEREAGH;

AND A

_DESCRIPTION OF NEW SOUTH WALES_.

BY W. B. CRAMP.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS AND Co. BRIDE-COURT, BRIDGE-STREET.

1823.

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NARRATIVE

OF A

VOYAGE TO INDIA,

&c. &c. &c.

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SECTION I.

THE AUTHOR'S DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND--DESCRIPTION OF THE
CEREMONY ON CROSSING THE EQUINOCTIAL LINE, AND HIS ARRIVAL
AT MADRAS.

On the 8th or 9th of January, 1815, we proceeded, in the Princess
Charlotte, Indiaman, to North-fleet Hope, and received on board our
cargo. On February 28th, we sailed to Gravesend, in company with the
Company's ships Ceres, Lady Melville, Rose, and Medcalfe, and arrived
at the Downs on the 3d of March. Our dispatches not being expected for
some time, we moored ship. Our time passed on very pleasantly till the
27th inst., when the weather became rather boisterous, and accompanied
by a heavy swell. On the evening of the 28th, as the Hon. Company's
ship Tarva, from Bengal, was rounding the Foreland, she struck on the
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