Borneo and the Indian Archipelago

Borneo and the Indian Archipelago

Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and sceneryI wish the readers of these...
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Author: Marryat, Frank,1826-1855
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Borneo and the Indian Archipelago

Borneo and the Indian Archipelago

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Borneo and the Indian Archipelago

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Author: Marryat, Frank,1826-1855
Format: eBook
Language: English

Borneo and the Indian Archipelago - with drawings of costume and scenery

I wish the readers of these pages to understand that it has been with no desire to appear before the public as an author that I have published this Narrative of the Proceedings of Her Majesty's ship Samarang during her last Surveying Cruise. During the time that I was in the ship, I made a large collection of drawings, representing, I hope faithfully, the costumes of the natives and the scenery of a country so new to Europeans. They were considered, on my return, as worthy to be presented to the public, as being more voluminous and more characteristic than drawings made in haste usually are. I may here observe, that it has been a great error on the part of the Admiralty, considering the great expense incurred in fitting out vessels for survey, that a little additional outlay is not made in supplying every vessel with a professional draughtsman, as was invariably the case in the first vessels sent out on discovery. The duties of officers in surveying vessels are much too fatiguing and severe to allow them the time to make anything but hasty sketches, and they require that practice with the pencil without which natural talent is of little avail; the consequence is, that the engravings, which have appeared in too many of the Narratives of Journeys and[vi] Expeditions, give not only an imperfect, but even an erroneous, idea of what they would describe. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 26844
Author: Marryat, Frank
Release Date: Oct 8, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

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