Travels in South-eastern Asia

"Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto."........... TERENCE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

BOSTON:

GOULD, KENDALL, AND LINCOLN.

SOLD BY BOOKSELLERS GENERALLY THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

DS 507

.M24 1839 V. 2

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839,

BY GOULD, Kendall, and LINCOLN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE

BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

CONTENTS.

PART III.

TRAVELS IN HINDUSTAN, MALAYA,

SIAM, AND CHINA.

Voyage to Calcutta -

CHAPTER I.

Saugor Island Hoogly River— Landing –

General Assembly's School - Benevolent Institution Orphan

Refuge - Central School - The Martiniere — Leper Hospital —

Operations of Education Committee - Colleges - Progress of the

English Language - Use of Roman Alphabet - Native Periodicals

Hindu and Mahometan Edifices. Ram Mohun Roy - Bromha

Sobha - Population of Calcutta - Expenses of Living — Habits of

Extravagance - Morals Religion - Clergy - Places of Worship

- Missionary Operations - Christian Villages - Hinduism shaken

Serampore; Aspect; Population; Marshman; College; Grave-

Yard. Operations of the Mission.

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CHAPTER II.

Madras - Catamarans

planade Population - Illustrations of Scripture State of Reli-

Teloogoos-Travelling by Palankeen - Pon-

Cuddalore — Tranquebar - Combaconum - Tanjore -

Kohlhoff-Swartz - Trichinopoly — Heber Seringham - Sla-

very in Hindustan - Idolatry supported by Government-Brah-

mins and Brahminism - Progressive Poverty of the Country..p. 48

Straits of Malacca - Harbor and Town of Singapore - Climate
Productions-Commerce-Islamism
Population - Moral Char-
acter of Population - Orang Louts - Chinese Wedding - Mission-
ary Operations - Malacca - History of the Settlement - Extent –
Population-Progress of Christianity - Anglo-Chinese College-

Common Schools - Malay Peninsula - Origin of Malay Race -

Divisions - Keda Perak Salengore - Johore - Rumbo-Pa-

hang - Tringano — Calantan

Malays Slavery — Language..

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