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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... expected from the surface under his rule , and the wild and jungly nature of some parts of it , and can only be accounted for by the remarkable population and fertility of those districts which are really produc- tive . Out of these ...
... expected from the surface under his rule , and the wild and jungly nature of some parts of it , and can only be accounted for by the remarkable population and fertility of those districts which are really produc- tive . Out of these ...
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... expected his daughter to be portioned out by the state ; but that if he could get sufficient security , he was able and likely , under a borrowed name , himself to lend the money . While this conversation was going on , I was doing my ...
... expected his daughter to be portioned out by the state ; but that if he could get sufficient security , he was able and likely , under a borrowed name , himself to lend the money . While this conversation was going on , I was doing my ...
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... expected . But on this side of Cheeta Talao it receives many other mountain streams : and some of these , it is reasonable to suppose , have escaped better in the general drought , and saved the credit of their suzerain before his ...
... expected . But on this side of Cheeta Talao it receives many other mountain streams : and some of these , it is reasonable to suppose , have escaped better in the general drought , and saved the credit of their suzerain before his ...
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... expected , these marks , being tokens of their martial occupation , are reckoned honourable , insomuch that their young warriors often counter- feit them with oil or soot , and do their best to get rid as soon as possible of the burgher ...
... expected , these marks , being tokens of their martial occupation , are reckoned honourable , insomuch that their young warriors often counter- feit them with oil or soot , and do their best to get rid as soon as possible of the burgher ...
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... expected visit from Swaamee Narain , to my interview with whom I had looked forward with an anxiety and eager- ness which , if he had known it , would , perhaps , have flattered him . He came in a somewhat dif- ferent style from all ...
... expected visit from Swaamee Narain , to my interview with whom I had looked forward with an anxiety and eager- ness which , if he had known it , would , perhaps , have flattered him . He came in a somewhat dif- ferent style from all ...
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