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 IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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... walks on the quarter - deck , and my Hindoostanee studies . In these I certainly am not idle , though , alas ! I cannot say much of my own proficiency . On Sunday 31st , we had again prayers and a sermon , though the weather was too ...
... walks on the quarter - deck , and my Hindoostanee studies . In these I certainly am not idle , though , alas ! I cannot say much of my own proficiency . On Sunday 31st , we had again prayers and a sermon , though the weather was too ...
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... walks , roofs , and ramparts , swarmed with gigantic birds , the " hurgila , " from " hur , " a bone , and " gilana , " to swallow , larger than the largest turkey , and twice as tall as the heron , which in some respects they much ...
... walks , roofs , and ramparts , swarmed with gigantic birds , the " hurgila , " from " hur , " a bone , and " gilana , " to swallow , larger than the largest turkey , and twice as tall as the heron , which in some respects they much ...
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... walking with her nurse , in great delight at the animals round her , but rather encumbered with the number of servants who had attached themselves to her . For her especial service , a bearer , a khitmutgar , a hurkaru , and a cook ...
... walking with her nurse , in great delight at the animals round her , but rather encumbered with the number of servants who had attached themselves to her . For her especial service , a bearer , a khitmutgar , a hurkaru , and a cook ...
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... walk of pounded brick , covered with sand , the usual mate- rial of the roads and streets in and near Calcutta , with a row of trees on each side , and about its centre a flight of steps to descend to the river , which in the morning ...
... walk of pounded brick , covered with sand , the usual mate- rial of the roads and streets in and near Calcutta , with a row of trees on each side , and about its centre a flight of steps to descend to the river , which in the morning ...
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... walk joins Calcutta , a very handsome quay is continued along the side of the river ; resembling in every thing but the durabi- lity of material , the quays of Petersburgh . It is unhappily of brick instead of granite , and is as yet ...
... walk joins Calcutta , a very handsome quay is continued along the side of the river ; resembling in every thing but the durabi- lity of material , the quays of Petersburgh . It is unhappily of brick instead of granite , and is as yet ...
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