Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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... live exempt from grief and pain ! On my lips the breath is fleeting , -can it , will it long remain ? The August 17. - Read prayers and preached . sea was too high to allow the men to sit down , or the awning to be hoisted , and it was ...
... live exempt from grief and pain ! On my lips the breath is fleeting , -can it , will it long remain ? The August 17. - Read prayers and preached . sea was too high to allow the men to sit down , or the awning to be hoisted , and it was ...
Page 30
... live here , and those few , such as the Missionaries employed by the Church Missionary Society in Mirzapoor , are said to suffer greatly from the climate . Even my Sircar , though a native , in speaking of the neighbouring district of ...
... live here , and those few , such as the Missionaries employed by the Church Missionary Society in Mirzapoor , are said to suffer greatly from the climate . Even my Sircar , though a native , in speaking of the neighbouring district of ...
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... live together , till their numbers become too great , when they separate like the Patriarchs of old , and find out new habitations . The magnificence of the building , -the beautiful pillars supporting the upper galleries , —and the ...
... live together , till their numbers become too great , when they separate like the Patriarchs of old , and find out new habitations . The magnificence of the building , -the beautiful pillars supporting the upper galleries , —and the ...
Page 57
... . House - rent is enormous , and though the poorer classes of Eu- ropeans and half - castes live in wretched dwellings , in very unwholesome parts of the town , they are 58 CAPTAIN MANNING . often obliged to pay for these.
... . House - rent is enormous , and though the poorer classes of Eu- ropeans and half - castes live in wretched dwellings , in very unwholesome parts of the town , they are 58 CAPTAIN MANNING . often obliged to pay for these.
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... live in them , whose business it is to keep the shrines clean , to receive the offer- ings of the individuals who come from time to time to worship , and to beat their gongs in honour of their idols , which is done three or four times ...
... live in them , whose business it is to keep the shrines clean , to receive the offer- ings of the individuals who come from time to time to worship , and to beat their gongs in honour of their idols , which is done three or four times ...
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