On the Coromandel Coast (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from On the Coromandel Coast ´We must receive with discrimination what we are told about India, for it is the most distant of lands and few of cur nation have seen it. Those, moreover, who have seen it, have seen only a part, and most of what they say is no more than hearsay. Even what they saw they became acquainted with only while passing through the country with an army in great haste. Yea, even their reports about the same things are not the same, although they write as if they had examined the things with the greatest care and attention. Some of the writers were fellow soldiers and fellow travellers, yet ofttimes they contradict each other. - Steabo. ´One thing is sure; they [the natives of India] are much the most interesting people in the world - and the nearest to being incomprehensible. At any rate the hardest to account for. Their character and their history, their customs and their religion confront you with riddles at every turn - riddles which are a trifle more perplexing after they are explained than before. You can get the facts of a custom - like caste and suttee and thuggee and so on - and with the facts a theory which tries to explain them, but never quite does it to your satisfaction. You can never quite understand how so strange a thing could have been born, nor why.´ - Mark Twain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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