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Indiaman

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Indiaman
(formerly) a large merchant ship engaged in trade with India


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Some of these vessels were of grand size--one was a large Indiaman just come home; and when the sun shone through the clouds, maktng silvery pools in the dark sea, the way in which these ships brightened, and shadowed, and changed, amid a bustle of boats pulling off from the shore to them and from them to the shore, and a general life and motion in themselves and everything around them, was most beautiful.
They are now (there is every reason to believe) on their passage to Bombay, in an East Indiaman.
The heir to the estate (Sir Percival having left no issue) was a son of Sir Felix Glyde's first cousin, an officer in command of an East Indiaman.
 
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