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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Page xii
... Ruins - Raja Omichund - Durbar - Decoits CHAPTER VI . SIBNIBASHI TO DACCA . Sibnibashi Gypseys - Winged bugs - Matabunga - Fishing - Difficult passage in the River - Brahminy Bulls - Titybania - Or- namented Boats - Strong Current ...
... Ruins - Raja Omichund - Durbar - Decoits CHAPTER VI . SIBNIBASHI TO DACCA . Sibnibashi Gypseys - Winged bugs - Matabunga - Fishing - Difficult passage in the River - Brahminy Bulls - Titybania - Or- namented Boats - Strong Current ...
Page xix
... ruin of the conclusion of the story blunders at its end into the triumph which the wishes of the readers had reserved for his nephew . Quentin himself is precisely the Page of " the Abbott : " a raw lively lad , thrown by accident into ...
... ruin of the conclusion of the story blunders at its end into the triumph which the wishes of the readers had reserved for his nephew . Quentin himself is precisely the Page of " the Abbott : " a raw lively lad , thrown by accident into ...
Page 41
... ruins , neglected pagodas , or dry and rubbishy places , where Europeans have not often occasion to tread . The water - snakes , which are met with in moist places , are very seldom dangerous . Alli- gators sometimes come on shore to ...
... ruins , neglected pagodas , or dry and rubbishy places , where Europeans have not often occasion to tread . The water - snakes , which are met with in moist places , are very seldom dangerous . Alli- gators sometimes come on shore to ...
Page 44
... ruins and buildings of apparently remote date are ex- tremely common , it would , perhaps , be difficult to find a single edifice 150 years old . This build- ing is of brick , with small windows and enormous buttresses . The upper story ...
... ruins and buildings of apparently remote date are ex- tremely common , it would , perhaps , be difficult to find a single edifice 150 years old . This build- ing is of brick , with small windows and enormous buttresses . The upper story ...
Page 57
... ruin the colonist in Calcutta . 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 ...
... ruin the colonist in Calcutta . 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 ...
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