Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825: With Notes Upon Ceylon, [and] an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India, Volume 1B.R. Publishing Corporation, 1985 |
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Page 174
... Ganges is really like the sea . As we passed near a hollow and precipitous part of the bank , on which the wind set full , it told on my ear exactly as if the tide were coming in ; and when the moon rested at night on this great , and ...
... Ganges is really like the sea . As we passed near a hollow and precipitous part of the bank , on which the wind set full , it told on my ear exactly as if the tide were coming in ; and when the moon rested at night on this great , and ...
Page 235
... Ganges had no chance , but expressed some satisfaction that he himself had seen them all when with Sir Gore Ouseley . While passing Sur- dah , I could easily distinguish a large brick build- ing , with a long range of tiled warehouses ...
... Ganges had no chance , but expressed some satisfaction that he himself had seen them all when with Sir Gore Ouseley . While passing Sur- dah , I could easily distinguish a large brick build- ing , with a long range of tiled warehouses ...
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... Ganges , and , for some reason or other , is accounted more holy than even the Ganges itself . All pilgrims to Benares are enjoined to drink and wash here ; but a few years ago , a quarrel having occurred between the Hindoo and ...
... Ganges , and , for some reason or other , is accounted more holy than even the Ganges itself . All pilgrims to Benares are enjoined to drink and wash here ; but a few years ago , a quarrel having occurred between the Hindoo and ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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