326 NAVIGATION. 



J. A. Hodgson. Also an account of trigonometrical and as- 

 tronomical operations for determining the heights and po- 

 sitions of the Himmaleh mountains by the same officer, in 

 conjunction with I^ieutenant Herbert ; and, lastly, a val- 

 uable memoir on the ancient geography of India, by Colo- 

 nel Wilford. These were given to the world before 1822. 

 But we know that the East India Company still continue, 

 with the same laudable diligence, the determination of the 

 geographical features of their territories, and that instru- 

 ments of the most improved construction, and similar in all 

 respects to those now used in the survey of Ireland, have 

 ■been obtained, and placed in the hands of military officers, 

 who will not fail to emulate the zeal and industry which so 

 eminently distinguished their predecessor Colonel Lambton. 



NAVIGATION. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Present State of Navigation between England and the East 

 Indies, u-ith Instructions for the Guidaiice of Passengers. 



Size and Appointments of an Indiaman— Promotion of Officers— Their 

 Duties — Instructions to Passengers— Classes of Ships — Outfit — Pas- 

 sase-money — Voyage to Indisj — Madeira — Daily Routine on board an 

 Indiaman — Amusements of the Passengers — Observation of Sunday — 

 Catching Sharks— The Nautilus— Equatorial limits of the Trades be- 

 tween 18° Rnd 26* \V. Long. — Crossing the Line— Wreck of the Blen- 

 .denhall — Cape of Good Hope — Constantia — Current off the Cafie — 

 Marine Barometer — Trade-winds — Route through the Mozambiqite 

 Channel — Bombay Harbour — Route to the eastward of the Cargados 

 Bank — Wreck of the Cabalva— Ceylon— Madras Roads — Mouth of the 

 Hoogley— Homeward Voyage— The Cape — St. Helena — The Azores. 



The present state of navigation to India, contrasted with 

 what it was even fifty years ago, is very remarkable. A 

 voyage to India ont and home is now sometimes accom- 

 plished in eight months by the same ship ; and to a letter 

 by one ship, an answer may occasionally be receiyed by 



