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Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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fAugust. A few days after his arrival, he was attacked by a malignantfever, which appeared on his body in bright blue spots, and left him scarce-ly strength to move for some time after his recovery. Having hired oneside of a camel, where he was placed in a pannier, he set out for Kanda-har ; in the course of his journey whither he was much annoyed by theinsults and reviling of the whole kafila, in consequence of hi3 no longerwearing the Mohammedan disguise, which, consequently, on his arrival atHerat, he thought it prudent again to assume. Here he joined anotherkafila, about to proceed to Tursheez, and obtained great respect the wholeway, by representing himself as a pilgrim going to visit the shrine of Me-shed. On the 28th of December, he left Tursheez, with a body of pilgrimsproceeding to Mesanderan, whence he journeyed to Mushedsir on the Cas-pian sea; embarked at that city for Baku, shaved off his beard, which hadgrown to an enormous thickness, and sailed to Astrachan, where he ar
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976 AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA. rived in the beginning of 1784, and, in the following July, landed in Eng-land. Immediately on his arrival he began to put his manuscripts in form forthe press, and in 1786, published, in London, his Sketches of the Mytholo-gy and Manners of the Hindoos. Returning some time after this to India,he published, at Calcutta, in 1790, the first volume of his travels, underthe title of A Journey from Bengal to England, and was just about to printa second, when he died at Nagpoor, whither he had been sent on an em-bassy, some time in the year 1792. In 1798, a complete edition of histravels was published in two quarto volumes, but so negligently edited, thatit has been doubted whether the second volume was compiled from themanuscripts of Forster, of whom no account was given, nor of the mannerin which his papers were obtained. The work, though not gaining thereputation it deserved, received great commendation from the literary world,and was translated into German by

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