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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... person at whom Colonel Raper looked with some surprise , and whom , he afterwards said , he had never seen or heard of before . He was apparently a Mussulman , a very tall hard - featured man , with a dark and gloomy expression of face ...
... person at whom Colonel Raper looked with some surprise , and whom , he afterwards said , he had never seen or heard of before . He was apparently a Mussulman , a very tall hard - featured man , with a dark and gloomy expression of face ...
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... person to resent it . ་ With this story on my mind it was with any thing rather than a pleasurable sensation , that I received in the course of the morn- ing a present of fruit , sweetmeats , and flowers , with the Ma - jee's best ...
... person to resent it . ་ With this story on my mind it was with any thing rather than a pleasurable sensation , that I received in the course of the morn- ing a present of fruit , sweetmeats , and flowers , with the Ma - jee's best ...
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... person was enough to devote the whole land to barrenness , and all who occasioned it to an everlasting abode in Padalon . The Bhâts protect nobody ; but to kill or beat one of them would be regarded as very disgraceful and ill - omened ...
... person was enough to devote the whole land to barrenness , and all who occasioned it to an everlasting abode in Padalon . The Bhâts protect nobody ; but to kill or beat one of them would be regarded as very disgraceful and ill - omened ...
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... persons of very high rank to converse only through the medium of a confidential servant , and I gladly made use of this etiquette , using the dâk jemautdar , whose Hindoostanee I understood pretty well , as the channel of it + ...
... persons of very high rank to converse only through the medium of a confidential servant , and I gladly made use of this etiquette , using the dâk jemautdar , whose Hindoostanee I understood pretty well , as the channel of it + ...
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... persons most concerned in the measurement and exploring of the Himalaya mountains , had been in Ladak , and repeatedly beyond the Chinese frontier , though repelled each time , after penetrating a few miles , by the Tartar cavalry . He ...
... persons most concerned in the measurement and exploring of the Himalaya mountains , had been in Ladak , and repeatedly beyond the Chinese frontier , though repelled each time , after penetrating a few miles , by the Tartar cavalry . He ...
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