Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes Upon Ceylon); an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826; and Letters Written in India, Volume 2Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828 |
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Page 14
... asked us if we wished to see the temple ? I answered of course any thing more that was to be seen , " and he turned short and led us some little distance up the citadel , then through a dark low arch into a small court , where , to my ...
... asked us if we wished to see the temple ? I answered of course any thing more that was to be seen , " and he turned short and led us some little distance up the citadel , then through a dark low arch into a small court , where , to my ...
Page 15
... asked him why her image was suffered to be dry ? The Raja , afraid to disobey , and reluctant to fulfil the requisition to its ancient extent of horror , took counsel and substituted a goat for the human victim , with which the Dark ...
... asked him why her image was suffered to be dry ? The Raja , afraid to disobey , and reluctant to fulfil the requisition to its ancient extent of horror , took counsel and substituted a goat for the human victim , with which the Dark ...
Page 20
... asked one of my attendants why there was no cultivation ? and he ascribed it first , to the effects of the former troubles , during which no man dared plough ; secondly , to the late drought , which had put a stop to all the ...
... asked one of my attendants why there was no cultivation ? and he ascribed it first , to the effects of the former troubles , during which no man dared plough ; secondly , to the late drought , which had put a stop to all the ...
Page 23
... asked the Rannee's people when we came up with them , but could only learn that they had not seen it , which on horseback they certainly could not do , and that it lay several coss out of our way . Our own course was evidently not a ...
... asked the Rannee's people when we came up with them , but could only learn that they had not seen it , which on horseback they certainly could not do , and that it lay several coss out of our way . Our own course was evidently not a ...
Page 24
... asked him if he should have preferred the Company's service , to which he replied that it was a very good service , the best in India , but that he could not endure the strictness of the discipline , and above all the cor- poral ...
... asked him if he should have preferred the Company's service , to which he replied that it was a very good service , the best in India , but that he could not endure the strictness of the discipline , and above all the cor- poral ...
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