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 131
... Persia it was not every gypsey who spoke it , only old people . He said they were so like each other in all the countries where he had seen them , that they could not be mistaken , though in Persia they were of much better caste , and ...
... Persia it was not every gypsey who spoke it , only old people . He said they were so like each other in all the countries where he had seen them , that they could not be mistaken , though in Persia they were of much better caste , and ...
Page 370
... Persian and English classes meet , besides a small room for a library . The boys on the establishment are about 140 , under the care of an English school - master , assisted by a Persian Moonshee , and two Hindoos- tanee writing ...
... Persian and English classes meet , besides a small room for a library . The boys on the establishment are about 140 , under the care of an English school - master , assisted by a Persian Moonshee , and two Hindoos- tanee writing ...
Page 390
... Persian , Hindoo law , and sacred lite- rature , Sanscrit , astronomy according to the Pto- lemaic system , and astrology ! There are 200 scholars , some of whom of all sorts came to say their lessons to me , though , unhappily , I was ...
... Persian , Hindoo law , and sacred lite- rature , Sanscrit , astronomy according to the Pto- lemaic system , and astrology ! There are 200 scholars , some of whom of all sorts came to say their lessons to me , though , unhappily , I was ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
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