Manuscript, in a single hand with marginal annotations throughout in a different hand, of an account of the author's travel to Bombay, beginning with the author's departure from "Hedgeree" by ship in 1804 to Bombay in the company of Richard Colley Wellesley, Governor-General of India. Once in Bombay, he provides a detailed description of Indian religious beliefs and customs, especially of Jainism; the effects of Catholic missions in Bombay; the geography; weather; and natural history. Throughout, he quotes extensively from Bartolomeo's Voyage to the East Indies. He also mentions the political situation, recounting the death of the Persian ambassador to Great Britain; the fall of Seringapatam; and the evidence of Zaman Shah's "inimical intentions...against the British Government"; and transcribes letters from Wellesley to the governor of Kabul; Zaman Shah; and the King of Persia regarding the movements of troops against the Sikhs. In the second section of the volume, he describes his 500-mile journey from Mangalore to Seringatpatam and then on to Fort St. George, including charts of his route with "remarks" upon many stages of the journey; and providing details on the political state of Mysore, the spice trade, and the gathering of intelligence. The author also includes many drawings throughout, including 7 watercolor illustrations of various scenes and people from the author's travels, such as "a monk of St. Francis" and "a monk of St. Augustine"; a picture of "Coffrey Slaves, people brought from the Mozabique, and who are perfect Savages"; "the marriage of Shiva & Parbutty"; 2 ink drawings of stone tablets signed "CMK"; and 2 pages, laid in and in watercolor, of the 24 Jain Tirthankars. Other items laid in are a newspaper clipping dated 1808 describing burial customs in ancient Persia; a chart in pencil of a list of "Jain Prophets" accompanied by a sketch of an elephant; an ink sketch of a procession; a small sketch of a Jain Tirthankar; a sketch of a column "at Chinroypatam"; and one page of Arabic writing.
