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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... seen in India , and a shield of rhinoceros - hide as transparent as horn , and ornamented with four silver bosses . He announced himself as sent by the Resident to enquire after my health , and advanced in a very graceful manner to ...
... seen in India , and a shield of rhinoceros - hide as transparent as horn , and ornamented with four silver bosses . He announced himself as sent by the Resident to enquire after my health , and advanced in a very graceful manner to ...
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... seen several elephants , on one of which , equipped with more than usual splendour , I was told was the Maharaja . The whole show greatly exceeded my expectations , and surpassed any thing of the kind which I had seen , particularly as ...
... seen several elephants , on one of which , equipped with more than usual splendour , I was told was the Maharaja . The whole show greatly exceeded my expectations , and surpassed any thing of the kind which I had seen , particularly as ...
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... seen for a long time , with tiled sloping roofs , and rows along the streets something like those of Chester . The palace , which is a large shabby building , close to the street , four stories high , with wooden galleries projecting ...
... seen for a long time , with tiled sloping roofs , and rows along the streets something like those of Chester . The palace , which is a large shabby building , close to the street , four stories high , with wooden galleries projecting ...
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... seen , and evidently of a kind , very few of which were within the compass of my redeeming from the Company . About nine we got back to dinner , hungry enough , and a little tired , but for my own part both amused and interested . The ...
... seen , and evidently of a kind , very few of which were within the compass of my redeeming from the Company . About nine we got back to dinner , hungry enough , and a little tired , but for my own part both amused and interested . The ...
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... seen there to this day . There are also Hajiuge and Majiuge ( Gog and Magog ) . " I told him that I had seen Kâf , but had not been so far as Mount Ararat ; though I believed that the " burra Sahib " ( Mr. Williams ) had seen it , which ...
... seen there to this day . There are also Hajiuge and Majiuge ( Gog and Magog ) . " I told him that I had seen Kâf , but had not been so far as Mount Ararat ; though I believed that the " burra Sahib " ( Mr. Williams ) had seen it , which ...
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