The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1N. Trübner, 1869 |
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... not so in- dependent of the elements as now . The hour , there- fore , of our embarkation was as propitious as could be wished . Both Neptune and Eolus seemed to look VOL . I. 1 down with complacency upon our undertaking ; —the one ,
... not so in- dependent of the elements as now . The hour , there- fore , of our embarkation was as propitious as could be wished . Both Neptune and Eolus seemed to look VOL . I. 1 down with complacency upon our undertaking ; —the one ,
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... the Poojah holidays to their country residences - where there was an eye that would mark their coming , and look brighter when they came ' —and where the Doomurdah . ' Children ran to lisp their sire's return 16 Travels of a Hindoo .
... the Poojah holidays to their country residences - where there was an eye that would mark their coming , and look brighter when they came ' —and where the Doomurdah . ' Children ran to lisp their sire's return 16 Travels of a Hindoo .
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... thirsting eye of enterprise . ' Past associations give to Doomurdah a gloomy and dismal look . The inhabitants are all jellas and mallas- boatmen and fishermen - many of whose fishing - nets VOL . I. 2 were drying in the sun . They are , ...
... thirsting eye of enterprise . ' Past associations give to Doomurdah a gloomy and dismal look . The inhabitants are all jellas and mallas- boatmen and fishermen - many of whose fishing - nets VOL . I. 2 were drying in the sun . They are , ...
Page 64
... look down with scorn upon the people on the other side of the Bhagiruttee . Nothing afforded us so great a pleasure as to pass through a country of one wide and uninterrupted cultivation , in which paddy fields , that have justly made ...
... look down with scorn upon the people on the other side of the Bhagiruttee . Nothing afforded us so great a pleasure as to pass through a country of one wide and uninterrupted cultivation , in which paddy fields , that have justly made ...
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... look the Zenana . Inside the pale of the Killa , or en- losure , within which the buildings stand , the will of the Nazim is yet law . Civil authorities have no juris- diction there , and we thought our audacity might cost our heads ...
... look the Zenana . Inside the pale of the Killa , or en- losure , within which the buildings stand , the will of the Nazim is yet law . Civil authorities have no juris- diction there , and we thought our audacity might cost our heads ...
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