From Edinburgh to India & Burmah

CHAPTER I

Some time ago I wrote a book about a voyage in a whaler to the far south, to a white, silent land where the sun shines all day and night and it is quiet as the grave and beautiful as heaven--when it is not blowing and black as--the other place! A number of people said they liked it, and asked me to write again; therefore these notes and sketches on a Journey to India and B...