The young Burton, an invalid escaping the heat of Sind, takes a pattimar down the coast to Goa. He compares Old Goa as it was with the decayed city as it is, describes the people of Panjim and the village system of Malabar, and climbs to the Nilgiri Hills, the Blue Mountains, with a sharp eye for Anglo-Indian folly.
One of Burton’s earliest books, already full of the irreverence and curiosity of his later travels. Download the free EPUB.