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*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255515028 thread] discusses the “overland route” from London to India.
*India List post transcribing a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-03/1301585129 ''The Times'' Thursday, 29 July, 1858] praising the captain of the Peninsula and Oriental Steamship Candida, travelling from India and China, with signatories, an India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301836311 response] and a further India List transcription of a letter in [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1301846241 ''The Times'' 5 January 1859] regarding the “evils and annoyances” experienced on the transit through Egypt to board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam vessel Ceylon,(for travel to India), with signatories
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*[http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap1.htm British Voices from South Asia, LSU - Chapter 1] [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/intvw1.htm LSU Interviews, Chapter 1]
*The story of Thomas Waghorn, at one time in the Bengal Pilot Service, who first developed the overland mail route between England and India [http://michelhoude.com/Waghorm/ImagesLTW/@WArticle.htm MichelHoude.com]
*[http://www.mta.hu/fileadmin/szekfoglalok/000914.pdf “Three British Travellers to the Middle East and India in the Early Seventeenth Century”] by Clifford Edmund Bosworth (April 2005?) Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It includes details of Thomas Coryate, an Englishman who walked from Aleppo in Syria to India, via Iraq, Persia and Afghanistan, arriving at Amjer, Rajasthan in July 1615 after a ten month walk.
