Chapter I: Front Matter

Ridiculous Effects of Ignorance, exemplified in a whimsical Story of two
Dublin Aldermen.

LETTER III. Page 10.

Author’s Motives for going to India. Melancholy Presentiments. Caution
against Superstition. Journey to Margate. Packet. Consoled by
meeting General LOCKHART on board. Lands at Ostend.

LETTER IV. Page 15.

Short Account of the Netherlands. Conduct of the Belgians. Ostend
described. Wonderful Effects of LIBERTY on the Human Mind,
exemplified in the Defence of Ostend against the Spaniards.

LETTER V. Page 20.

Caution against using Houses of Entertainment on the Continent kept by
Englishmen. Description of the Barques. Arrives at Bruges. Gross Act
of Despotism in the Emperor. Imprisonment of LA FAYETTE.

LETTER VI. Page 27.

Description of Bruges. Reflections on the Rise and Decay of Empires.
Chief Grandeur of the Cities of Christendom, consisted in Buildings,
the Works of Monkish Imposture and Sensuality. Superstition a
powerful Engine.

LETTER VII. Page 33.

Opulence of the Bishop of Bruges; Cathedral. Church of Notre Dame.
Vestments of THOMAS A BECKET. Extraordinary Picture. Monastery of
the Dunes. The Mortification of that Order. A curious Relic.

LETTER VIII. Page 40.

Passage to Ghent. Cheapness of Travelling. Description of Ghent
Cathedral. Monastery of St. Pierre. CHARITY of the Clergy.

LETTER IX. Page 47.

Description of two brazen Images, erected in Commemoration of an
extraordinary Act of Filial Virtue. Journey from Ghent through Alost
to Brussels.

LETTER X. Page 52.

General Review of Austrian Flanders.

LETTER XI. Page 58.

Short Description of Brussels. Royal Library. Arsenal. Armour of
Montezuma. The Enormities committed under the Pretext of
Christianity, by far greater than those committed by the French in
the Frenzy of Emancipation.

LETTER XII. Page 65.

Brussels continued. Churches, Chapels, Toys, Images and Pictures. A
Host, or Wafer, which was stabbed by a Jew, and bled profusely. Inns
excellent and cheap.

LETTER XIII. Page 72.

General Remarks on the People of the Netherlands. Account of the Emperor
JOSEPH the Second. Anecdote of that Monarch. His Inauguration at
Brussels. Burning of the Town-House. Contrasted Conduct of the
Belgians to JOSEPH on his Arrival, and after his Departure. The
detestable Effects of Aristocracy.

LETTER XIV. Page 82.

Liege. Constitution of the German Empire. Tolerant Disposition of JOSEPH
the Second, occasions a Visit from His Holiness the Pope, who
returns to Rome in Disappointment. Situation of the present Emperor.
Reflections on the Conduct of Russia and Prussia to Poland.

LETTER XV. Page 90.

Luxury of the Bishop of Liege. Reflections on the Inconsistency of the
Professions and Practice of Churchmen, particularly the _Nolo
Episcopari_, which Bishops swear at their Instalment. Advantages of
the Study of the Law in all Countries. Liege, the Paradise of
Priests. Sir JOHN MANDEVILLE’s Tomb.

LETTER XVI. Page 96.

Aix-la-Chapelle. A bit of Earth in a Golden Casket. Consecration of the
Cathedral, by an Emperor, a Pope, and three hundred and sixty-five
Bishops. Their valuable Presents to that Church.

LETTER XVII. Page 102.

Juliers. Reflections on Religious Persecution. Cologne. Church of St.
Ursula. Bones of eleven thousand Virgin Martyrs. Church of St.
Gerion. Nine hundred Heads of Moorish Cavaliers. Reflections on the
Establishment of Clergy, and the Superiority of that of Scotland.

LETTER XVIII. Page 109.

Cologne continued. Strange Ambition of Families to be thought
Descendants of the Romans. Story of Lord ANSON and a Greek Pilot.
Bonne. Bridge of Cæsar. Coblentz. Mentz. Frankfort.

LETTER XIX. Page 115.

Frankfort described. Golden Bull. Augsburgh. Manufactory of
Watch-Chains, &c. Happy State of Society arising from the tolerant
Disposition of the Inhabitants.

LETTER XX. Page 121.

Augsburgh continued. Adventure in the Convent of Carmelites. A good
Friar.

LETTER XXI. Page 128.

Tyrol Country. Story of Genii leading the Emperor MAXIMILIAN astray.
Innspruck.

LETTER XXII. Page 134.

Tyrolese. Innspruck. Riches of the Franciscan Church there. One Mass in
it sufficient to deliver a Soul from Purgatory. Hall. Curiosities at
the Royal Palace of Ombras. Brisen. Valley of Bolsano. Trent.

LETTER XXIII. Page 140.

Description of the Bishopric of Trent. Obvious Difference between
Germany and Italy. Contrast between the Characters of the Germans
and Italians. Council of Trent. Tower for drowning Adulterers.
Bassano. Venice.

LETTER XXIV. Page 146.

General Description of Venice, and Reflections on the Venetians.

LETTER XXV. Page 154.

Concubinage more systematically countenanced in Venice than London.
Trieste. Loss of Servant and Interpreter. Sail for Alexandria.
Zante.

LETTER XXVI. Page 160.

Adventure at the Island of Zante. Alexandria. The Plague, and an
Incursion of the Arabs. Pompey’s Pillar, Cleopatra’s Obelisk, &c.
Island of Cyprus. Latichea. Aleppo.

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LETTER XXVII. Page 1.

Description of Aleppo.

LETTER XXVIII. Page 10.

Short Account of the Turkish Constitution and Government.

LETTER XXIX. Page 19.

Account of Turkish Constitution and Government continued. Moral
Character of the Turks.

LETTER XXX. Page 25.

Prejudices of Christian Writers, and their Misrepresentations of the
Turkish Morals and Religion. Vindication of the latter.

LETTER XXXI. Page 33.

Vindication of the Turks continued. Description of a Caravan, Page 40.
Account of Ceremonies used by Pilgrims at Mecca, Page 48.

LETTER XXXII. Page 51.

Aleppo continued. Frequent Broils in the Streets.

LETTER XXXIII. Page 59.

Aleppo continued. Coffee-houses. Story-tellers.

LETTER XXXIV. Page 66.

Aleppo continued. Puppet-shews. Raraghuze, or Punch, his Freedom of
Speech and Satire.

LETTER XXXV. Page 74.

Disagreeable Adventure, which occasions a sudden Departure from Aleppo.

LETTER XXXVI. Page 83.

A Plan of Travelling settled. Tartar Guide. Departure from Aleppo.

LETTER XXXVII. Page 92.

Description of Tartar Guide. His Conduct. Arrival at Diarbeker. Padan
Aram of Moses. Scripture Ground. Reflections. Description of the
City of Diarbeker. Whimsical Incident occasioned by Laughing. Oddity
of the Tartar.

LETTER XXXIX. Page 107.

Strange Traits in the Tartar’s Character. Buys Women, ties them up in
Sacks, and carries them 50 Miles. Reflections on the Slave Trade.
Apostrophe to the Champion of the oppressed Africans.

LETTER XL. Page 115.

Extravagant Conduct of the Tartar, which he afterwards explains
satisfactorily. Extraordinary Incident and Address of the Tartar, in
the Case of Santons.

LETTER XLI. Page 123.

Explanation of the Affair by the Santons. Bigotry. Reflections.

LETTER XLII. Page 130.

Arrives at Mosul. Description thereof. A Story-teller. A Puppet-shew.
The Tartar forced to yield to Laughter, which he so much condemned.
Set out for Bagdad. Callenders—their artful Practices.

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LETTER XLIII. Page 1.

Arrives at Bagdad. Whimsical Conduct of the Guide. Character of the
Turks. Short Account of Bagdad. Effects of Opinion. Ruins of
Babylon. Leaves Bagdad. Attacked by Robbers on the Tigris.

LETTER XLIV. Page 11.

Arrives at Bassora. Account of that City. Leaves it, and arrives at
Busheer. More Disappointments. Bombay. Goa. Gloomy Presentiments on
leaving Goa. A Storm.

LETTER XLV. Page 19.

Shipwreck.

LETTER XLVI. Page 25.

The same.

LETTER XLVII. Page 31.

Made Prisoner by some of HYDER ALLI’S Troops. Humanity of a Lascar.
Hardships. Meets a Friend. Mr. HALL.

LETTER XLVIII. Page 38.

Mr. HALL’s Misery aggravated by the Loss of a Miniature which hung at
his Bosom. Sent under a Guard up the Country.

LETTER XLIX. Page 45.

Arrives at Hydernagur, the Capital of the Province of Bidanore. Brought
before the Jemadar. Committed to Prison.

LETTER L. Page 55.

History of HYAT SAHIB. Called upon to enter into the Service of HYDER,
and offered a Command. Peremptorily refuses. Another Prisoner, a
Native. Court of Justice. Tortures and Exactions. Mr. HALL declining
fast.

LETTER LI. Page 63.

Mr. HALL’s affecting Story.

LETTER LII. Page 70.

Pressed to enter into the Service of HYDER ALLI. Refusal. Threatened to
be hanged. Actually suspended, but let down again. Still persists in
a Refusal, and determined to undergo any Death rather than enter.
Projects a Plan to excite a Revolt, and escape.

LETTER LIII. Page 77.

Project to escape defeated. Laid in Irons. Intolerable Hardships. Death
of Mr. HALL.

LETTER LIV. Page 83.

Melancholy Situation. Cruelty. Released from Prison. Account of HYDER,
and East Indian Politics in general.

LETTER LV. Page 88.

East Indian Politics continued.

LETTER LVI. Page 96.

Account of HYDER, and Indian Politics continued. General MATHEWS’s
Descent on the Malabar Coast. Mounts the Ghauts. Approaches towards
Hydernagur. Author’s Delight at getting into the open Air. Delivered
by an unexpected Encounter from his Guards.

LETTER LVII. Page 103.

Returns to the Fort, and proposes to the Jemadar to give it up to the
English. Proceeds to the English Camp.

LETTER LVIII. Page 110.

Meeting with General MATHEWS. Returns to the Fort with a Cowl. Delivers
it to the Jemadar. Leads General MATHEWS into the Fort, and brings
him into the Presence of the Jemadar. English Flag hoisted.
Vindication of General MATHEWS from the Charge of Peculation.

LETTER LIX. Page 118.

Sets off for Bengal. Cundapore. Unable to proceed. Letter from General
MATHEWS. Proceeds in an open Boat for Anjengo. Stopped by Sickness
at Mangalore. Tellicherry. Anjengo. Travancore. Dancing Girls.
Palamcotah. Madura. Revolt of ISIF CAWN.

LETTER LX. Page 132.

Trichinopoly. Tanjore. Burning of Gentoo Women with the Bodies of their
Husbands. Negapatnam.

LETTER LXI. Page 149.

Leaves Negapatnam. Taken by a French Frigate. Horrible Reflections.
SUFFREIN. Character of TIPPOO SAHIB. Escape. Arrives at Madras.

LETTER LXII. Page 149.

Passage to Bengal. Negociation for HYAT SAHIB. Mr. HASTINGS. Sir JOHN
MACPHERSON. Hear from MACAULEY, Sir JOHN’s Secretary, of the Servant
I lost at Trieste. Jagranaut Pagoda. Vizagapatnam.

LETTER LXIII. Page 167.

Masulipatam. Arrives at Madras. Determines to proceed on HYAT’s Business
to Bombay. Reaches Palamcotah. Takes sick. Recovering, crawls to
Anjengo, and thence to Bombay. Resolves to return again to Madras.
Adventure with a young Lady. Surat. China. Bath. Conclusion.

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_ERRATA._

PART I.

P. L.
9. 2. For _shroud_, read _shrewd_.
24. 2. For _le berque_, read _la barque_.
30. 3. For _conquerous_, read _conquerors_.
40. 1. For _berque_, read _barque_.
41. 15. For _berque_, read _barque_.
138. 18. For _I_, read _It_.
147. 14. For _prospect_, read _appearance_.
156. 18. For _Sucz_, read _Suez_.
162. 15. For _reget_, read _regret_.
165. 15. For _exporium_, read _emporium_.

PART III.

P. L.

16. 18. For _snow_, read _storm_.

18. 7. For _ports_, read _parts_.

21. 10. For _rolling_, read _bailing_.

24. 4. After _to_, insert _be_.

30. 2. For _I_, read _It_.

71. 17. For _conscience_, read
_convenience_.

90. 3. For _or_, read _for_.

108. 24. For _one_, read _ten_.

122. 1. For _shewed_, read _shewn_.

129. 19. For _Troop_, read _Company_.

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