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 : in Three Volumes, Volume 3Murray, 1828 - 525 pages |
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... called , comprising the greater part of those to whom I had been introduced the day of my arrival . Three of them were very young men , or rather boys , the sons of the late minister , Shastree , who , as I have already stated , was ...
... called , comprising the greater part of those to whom I had been introduced the day of my arrival . Three of them were very young men , or rather boys , the sons of the late minister , Shastree , who , as I have already stated , was ...
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... called " Nawâb , " but whose name I could not catch . He asked after " Duke Wellington , " and said that his father had been well - known to him during the war in the Deckan . Mr. Williams asked the Catteywâr Raja some ques- tions ...
... called " Nawâb , " but whose name I could not catch . He asked after " Duke Wellington , " and said that his father had been well - known to him during the war in the Deckan . Mr. Williams asked the Catteywâr Raja some ques- tions ...
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... called Wasnud . 66 Nothing could be more picturesque than this passage of the Granicus . " The moon was suffi- ciently bright to shew the wild and woodland cha- racter of the landscape , and the brightness and ripple of the water ...
... called Wasnud . 66 Nothing could be more picturesque than this passage of the Granicus . " The moon was suffi- ciently bright to shew the wild and woodland cha- racter of the landscape , and the brightness and ripple of the water ...
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... called Sepoys , and with more accuracy than the regular troops , inasmuch as their weapons are still really the bow and arrow , " sip , " whence the Asiatic sol- dier derives his appellation . March 25. - We resumed our march at the ...
... called Sepoys , and with more accuracy than the regular troops , inasmuch as their weapons are still really the bow and arrow , " sip , " whence the Asiatic sol- dier derives his appellation . March 25. - We resumed our march at the ...
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... called , Coolies . These last form perhaps two - thirds of the population , and are con- sidered by public men in Guzerât as the original inhabitants of the country , a character which , I know not why , they refuse to the Bheels , who ...
... called , Coolies . These last form perhaps two - thirds of the population , and are con- sidered by public men in Guzerât as the original inhabitants of the country , a character which , I know not why , they refuse to the Bheels , who ...
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