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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... young officer splendidly mounted on a dapple - grey Arab horse , with the most showy accoutrements which I had seen in India , and a shield of rhinoceros - hide as transparent as horn , and ornamented with four silver bosses . He ...
... young officer splendidly mounted on a dapple - grey Arab horse , with the most showy accoutrements which I had seen in India , and a shield of rhinoceros - hide as transparent as horn , and ornamented with four silver bosses . He ...
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... young man whom Mr. Williams introduced to me as se- cretary to the Raja and son of the Brahmin vakeel Shastree , whom the Peishwa , Bajee Rao , murdered by the advice of Trimbuk - jee , and thence B 2 ENTRANCE INTO BARODA . 3.
... young man whom Mr. Williams introduced to me as se- cretary to the Raja and son of the Brahmin vakeel Shastree , whom the Peishwa , Bajee Rao , murdered by the advice of Trimbuk - jee , and thence B 2 ENTRANCE INTO BARODA . 3.
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... young man , of twenty - seven years old . The usual forms of introduction and enquiries after health followed , and his Highness , after asking when I would come to see him , for which I fixed Monday evening , remounted his elephant ...
... young man , of twenty - seven years old . The usual forms of introduction and enquiries after health followed , and his Highness , after asking when I would come to see him , for which I fixed Monday evening , remounted his elephant ...
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... young men I ever saw . Nothing could exceed the smartness of his embroidery , the spotless purity of his broad belts , the art with which his eyelids were blackened with antimony , his short curling beard , whiskers , and single love ...
... young men I ever saw . Nothing could exceed the smartness of his embroidery , the spotless purity of his broad belts , the art with which his eyelids were blackened with antimony , his short curling beard , whiskers , and single love ...
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... young man who is well spoken of , and seems to like his situation ; he and his family have as yet enjoyed good health , though Guzerāt is reckoned one of the worst climates in India , being intensely hot the greater part of the year ...
... young man who is well spoken of , and seems to like his situation ; he and his family have as yet enjoyed good health , though Guzerāt is reckoned one of the worst climates in India , being intensely hot the greater part of the year ...
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