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*''Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, Through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistan'' by Lieut. Arthur Conolly 1834. 2nd edition revised 1838 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=htUWAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I 1834], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=wyEj7vl0uDIC&pg=PR1 Volume II 1834]; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sk7zBYBjW9sC&pg=PR4 Volume I, 1838], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D74oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume II 1838] Google Books
*''Adventures During a Journey Overland to India: By Way of Egypt, Syria, and the Holy Land'' by Major Skinner 31st Reg. 1836. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fd4DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR2 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XQ5ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8754/page/n1/mode/2up ''England to Calcutta by the Overland Route in 1845''] by Frederick Walter Simms, late Consulting Engineer to the Government of India, edited by his son. 1878 Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India. The trip took a total of 46 days, by ship to Alexandria, by canal boat and small steam boat to Cairo, across the desert to Suez, and then by ship.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eJNeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Ocean & the Desert''] by A Madras Officer, stated to be the late Major General Albert Henry Andrew Hervey 1846. Google Books. Two Volumes in one. Volume II commences following page 271. By ship from Bombay to Suez, on the "Hindustan", a large steam ship, (but with crowded accomodation), sightseeing in Egypt, by ship to Italy with sightseeing there, etc.
*''Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus'' by Grattan Geary, Editor of ''The Times of India'' 1878 [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict00geargoog ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82983 ''Volume II''] [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict02geargoog ''Volume II'', from page 90 only, but illustrations may be better], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284626 Another file, ''Volume II''] Archive.org, including books from the Digital Library of India Collection.
