Binghi Bay, Angediva Island. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography The only landing place on the island. On the left is the only dwelling house, that of the Portuguese customs officer. The same boat (a dug-out) as above. Whilst the eastern side of Angediva has some vegetation, elsewhere it is bleak and barren.
Kumpta, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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The shady road from the town to the bunder where passengers and cargo is loaded into boats for transhipment into coasting steamers or country craft. The principle transport is the betelnut, more properly ‘areca’.
Rajamundrug to Kumpta. The North Canara Coast Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography A breezy day among coconut palms, where life is at its simplest and probably not fifty rupees in cash in the whole village.
Bhatkal, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Passangers are loaded up on the seaward beach, but when the boats are not in use they lie insid the creek. The Company's office is in the side of the hill across the water. Bhatkal. An open fair weather roadstead. A port project was mooted to cut the narrow isthmus behind the headland and link...
Bhatkal Head, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Another view of the creek. The town is about 2.5 miles up the estuary and can be reached by freighted boats of the smaller size and on the tide. Bhatkal. An open fair weather roadstead. A port project was mooted to cut the narrow isthmus behind the headland and link up with the nearest railhea...
Pigeon or Netrani Island, 12 miles off the Coast of Canara. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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The encrusted rock is the only footing available in the whole circumference of the island. On this occasion it was reached from Bhatkal by a sailing boat towing a toney (dug-out) for the landing. It seems never to have been lived upon, but the edible nests of the sea swiftlet were collected th...
Bednore, Kundapure (between Bhatkal and Mulpy). The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography The road junction of North and South Canara before the ascent of the ghaut. It was the coastal base of General Mathews (1783) when he marched up the the Hyder Ghaut to seize the fortress of Bednore, which contained a great part of Tipu Sultan's treasure. The ultim...
Mulpy, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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The steamer has been sighted and a passenger boat rows and punts out to be at the anchorage in good time to meet it. The boat is just about to cross the bar, not a very boisterous one at this time.