[Gutenberg 26844] • Borneo and the Indian Archipelago / with drawings of costume and scenery

Excerpt from Borneo and the Indian Archipelago: With Drawings of Costume and Scenery

I may here observe, that it has been a great error on the part of the Admiralty, considering the great expense incurred in fitting out vessels for survey, that a little additional outlay is not made in supplying every Vessel with a professional draughtsman, as was invariably the case in the first vessels sent out on discovery. The duties of officers in surveying vessels are much too fatiguing and severe to allow them the time to make anything but hasty sketches, and they require that practice with the pencil without which natural talent is of little avail; the consequence is, that the engravings.

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