Burton, Richard Francis: Goa, and the blue mountains: or, six months of sick leave (London, 1851)

Bay of Bombay, before we bid adieu to it, with a
free translation of the celebrated Frenchman's good
bye, " Canards, canaux, canaille','' — adieu ducks,
dingies, drabs, and duns.'"

Gentlemen tourists, poetical authors, lady pro-
sers, and, generally, all who late in life, visit the
" palm tasselled strand of glowing Ind," as one of
our European celebrities describes the country in
prose run mad, certainly are gifted with wonderful
optics for detecting the Sublime and Beautiful.
Now this same bay has at divers and sundry times
been subjected to much admiration ; and as each
succeeding traveller must improve upon his pre-
decessors, the latest authorities have assigned to its
charms a rank above the Bay of Naples—a bay
which, in our humble opinion, places every other
bay in a state of abeyance. At least so we under-
stand Captain Von Orlich—the gentleman who con-
cludes that the Belochees are of Jewish origin,
because they divorce their wives. To extract Bom-
bay from the Bay of Naples, proceed thus. Remove
Capri, Procida, Ischia, and the other little pictu-

* " Ducks" are the Bombayites in general: "Dingies"is
the name popularly given to the smaller specimens of native
craft. The Dun and the Drab are probably familiar to the
reader's ears.