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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... buildings . I was surprised at so poor a muster among the warlike and turbulent Rajpoots , but recollected that in a country where every citizen and cultivator is a soldier , on ordinary occasions every soldier will be a cultivator or ...
... buildings . I was surprised at so poor a muster among the warlike and turbulent Rajpoots , but recollected that in a country where every citizen and cultivator is a soldier , on ordinary occasions every soldier will be a cultivator or ...
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... building seems more to surprise by the number , the intricacy , and detail of the rooms and courts , than by any apartments of large size and magnificent pro- portions . A great part of the windows are glazed with small panes of stained ...
... building seems more to surprise by the number , the intricacy , and detail of the rooms and courts , than by any apartments of large size and magnificent pro- portions . A great part of the windows are glazed with small panes of stained ...
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... buildings . In passing along the garden wall , I ought to have observed before , we were shewn five or six elephants in training for a fight . Each was separately kept in a small paved court , with a little litter , but very dirty ...
... buildings . In passing along the garden wall , I ought to have observed before , we were shewn five or six elephants in training for a fight . Each was separately kept in a small paved court , with a little litter , but very dirty ...
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... buildings of the same cha- racter , one of which was pointed out to me as a shrine whither the young Raja is carried weekly to pay his devotions , and another as the house where he puts up his horses and reposes on such occasions ...
... buildings of the same cha- racter , one of which was pointed out to me as a shrine whither the young Raja is carried weekly to pay his devotions , and another as the house where he puts up his horses and reposes on such occasions ...
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... building , which contain one very noble hall of audience , a pretty little garden with fountains , and a long succession of passages , cloisters , alcoves , and small and intricate apartments , many of them extremely beautiful , and ...
... building , which contain one very noble hall of audience , a pretty little garden with fountains , and a long succession of passages , cloisters , alcoves , and small and intricate apartments , many of them extremely beautiful , and ...
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