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 xxxviii
... told that , as we ap- proach the Cape , their numbers will increase daily . Those called " Cape Pigeons " are very pretty , not unlike the land bird , the name of which they bear , and which they are said to resemble in flavour . For ...
... told that , as we ap- proach the Cape , their numbers will increase daily . Those called " Cape Pigeons " are very pretty , not unlike the land bird , the name of which they bear , and which they are said to resemble in flavour . For ...
Page 122
... told the priests that they were to divide it . No sooner , however , had it touched the threshold , than the two old men began scrambling for it in a most indecorous manner , abusing each other , spitting , stamping , clapping their ...
... told the priests that they were to divide it . No sooner , however , had it touched the threshold , than the two old men began scrambling for it in a most indecorous manner , abusing each other , spitting , stamping , clapping their ...
Page 352
... told was no Brahmin ; he was a labourer , who had left his family in a time of scar- city , and gone to live , ( as was believed , ) in the neighbourhood of Moorshedabad , whence he had once , in the course of several years , sent his ...
... told was no Brahmin ; he was a labourer , who had left his family in a time of scar- city , and gone to live , ( as was believed , ) in the neighbourhood of Moorshedabad , whence he had once , in the course of several years , sent his ...
Contents
FURREEDPOOR TO BOG LIPOOR | xv |
CHAPTER I | lxix |
CHAPTER II | 26 |
Copyright | |
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