Excerpt from The India Directory, or Directions for Sailing to and From the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America, Vol. 1: Compiled Chiefly From Original Journals of the Honourable Company's Ships, and From Observations and Remarks, Resulting From the Experience of Twenty-One Years in the Navigation of Those Seas IN submitting a Fourth Edition Of this Sailing Directory to the public, and to those Navigators who frequent the Oriental Seas and adjacent parts, the author returns his sincere thanks for their candid reception Of the former editions Of his work, and he trusts that the present will be found still more worthy of public confidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.