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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... plantains , and coco - nuts , none good of their kind as we were told ; the shaddock resembles a melon externally ... plantain grows in bunches , with its stalks arranged side by side ; the fruit is shaped like a kidney potatoe , covered ...
... plantains , and coco - nuts , none good of their kind as we were told ; the shaddock resembles a melon externally ... plantain grows in bunches , with its stalks arranged side by side ; the fruit is shaped like a kidney potatoe , covered ...
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... plantains , and flowering shrubs ; the muddy ponds were covered with the broad - leaved lotus , and the adjacent " paddy , " or rice - fields , were terminated by a wood of tall coco - nut trees , between whose stems the light was ...
... plantains , and flowering shrubs ; the muddy ponds were covered with the broad - leaved lotus , and the adjacent " paddy , " or rice - fields , were terminated by a wood of tall coco - nut trees , between whose stems the light was ...
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... plantains , picturesque and striking to the sight , but extremely offensive to the smell , from the quantity of putrid water , the fumes of wood smoke , coco - nut oil , and above all the ghee , which is to the Hindoo his principal ...
... plantains , picturesque and striking to the sight , but extremely offensive to the smell , from the quantity of putrid water , the fumes of wood smoke , coco - nut oil , and above all the ghee , which is to the Hindoo his principal ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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