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 91
... carried was according to the old Indian fashion , much handsomer than that now in use , but probably not so convenient . The vehicle of the bride was a common mehannah palanquin , closed up , and look- ing like a coffin . The number of ...
... carried was according to the old Indian fashion , much handsomer than that now in use , but probably not so convenient . The vehicle of the bride was a common mehannah palanquin , closed up , and look- ing like a coffin . The number of ...
Page 116
... carried her merrily along the lee shore for about 200 yards , when the headland being passed , we had again sea - room , and they all swam on board like so many water - rats . This , of course , shews the extreme lightness of our vessel ...
... carried her merrily along the lee shore for about 200 yards , when the headland being passed , we had again sea - room , and they all swam on board like so many water - rats . This , of course , shews the extreme lightness of our vessel ...
Page 248
... carried us at a rattling rate beyond a very rapid and diffi- cult part of the stream . The banks are very ugly and miserable , shewing nothing but reeds . I here saw , for the first time , a number of those high ant- hills , the work of ...
... carried us at a rattling rate beyond a very rapid and diffi- cult part of the stream . The banks are very ugly and miserable , shewing nothing but reeds . I here saw , for the first time , a number of those high ant- hills , the work of ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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