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 71
... bamboos about eighteen inches or two feet above the ground , on which the dead body had been laid , and under which , as my native servants told me , the unhappy widow had been stretched out , surrounded with combustibles . Only a heap ...
... bamboos about eighteen inches or two feet above the ground , on which the dead body had been laid , and under which , as my native servants told me , the unhappy widow had been stretched out , surrounded with combustibles . Only a heap ...
Page 109
... bamboos , with circular boards at the end , a longer one of the same sort to steer with , a long rough bamboo for a mast , and one , or some- times two sails , of a square form , ( or rather broader above than below , ) of very coarse ...
... bamboos , with circular boards at the end , a longer one of the same sort to steer with , a long rough bamboo for a mast , and one , or some- times two sails , of a square form , ( or rather broader above than below , ) of very coarse ...
Page 264
... bamboos on this rocky soil , which I should not have supposed favourable to their growth ; but on enquiry , I was ... bamboo of such situations is always preferred for spears , oars , masts , & c . We halted for the night in a very ...
... bamboos on this rocky soil , which I should not have supposed favourable to their growth ; but on enquiry , I was ... bamboo of such situations is always preferred for spears , oars , masts , & c . We halted for the night in a very ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
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