A journal of a voyage to Madrass : in the year of our Lord Christ, 1761 : manuscript / by Richard Rose, Leiutenant [sic] in the 96th Regiment of Foot.
Published / Created:
1761.
Physical Description:
1 volume ([6], 80 pages) : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:13887726
Classification:
Archives & Manuscripts
Notes:
Title from title page.
Contents:
Contents, transcribed from pages [5]-[6]: Letter 1. Account of the troops embarking; their orders and sailing; a song called a farwell to England -- 2. Discription of our ship; our births etc. -- 3. Some account of the passengers on board -- 4. Further acct. of do.; a copy of verses on and of the young ladys on board the Warren -- 5. Account of our amusemts. & two songs -- 6. Do. continued; game of Tristram Shandy -- 7. Discription of a flying fish, a dolphin, an albicore and grampus; quotation from Ps. -- 8. Things proper to take to India -- 9. Account of violent storm, thunder and lightning with a draft of a buckle melted by it -- 10. Account of some disputes on board -- 11. Do. continued -- 12. Do. continued and ended -- 13. A copy of verses on a young ladys weeping at the fair penitent & a song -- 14. The Parting of Sirens & Diana from Dryden -- 15. Account of the distances and latitudes evry day since we left England to the time of coming into Delagoa Harbour -- 16. Saw land for the first time; song on do.; draft of do. and of the Island of St. Marys; our ship [struck?]; account of our consternation & of further disputes on board etc. -- 17. Troops go on shore at Delagoa; a plan of the harbour and natives described -- 18. Discription of Delagoa contd. -- 19. Do. continued -- 20. Quotation from Gay's Fables; we loose Fo[?] Indian[?]; set sail -- 21. Ship [illegible], the island of Comora discribed etc. -- 22. Discription of Comora contd. -- 23. Discription of Mayotta, Mohilla and Johanna; toddy etc. -- 24. Dog died on board; diserted; a fragmt. of a satirical poem; the ansr. -- 25. A rebus on each [?] of the Lady's -- 26. Arrive at Madrass without loosing one man; distance & lat.
Subject Terms:
Rose, Richard, 1728–1770 -- Diaries. | Rose, Mary (of Rowling, Kent) | Glover, Alphonsus. | Chapman, J. H. | Great Britain. Army -- History. | Great Britain. Army -- Officers -- Diaries. | Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 99th. | Warren (Ship : 1761) | East India Company. | Seafaring life. | Ocean travel. | Marine animals. | English poetry -- 18th century. | Seven Years' War, 1756–1763. | Songs, English -- 18th century. | British -- India. | Maputo Bay (Mozambique) -- Description and travel. | Maputo (Mozambique) -- Description and travel. | Chennai (India) -- Description and travel. | Comoros.
