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... wide jungles and pathless forests , scattered remains of a primitive population , fierce , black , undersized , muscular , with no written literature - their only monuments stone slabs , flints , and mounds . Of these the chief tribes ...
... wide jungles and pathless forests , scattered remains of a primitive population , fierce , black , undersized , muscular , with no written literature - their only monuments stone slabs , flints , and mounds . Of these the chief tribes ...
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... wide , three feet in depth , including the washboard , which is sewn to the gunwale , and are hollowed out of a single stem . The most striking feature about them is the balance - log , a solid buoyant outrigger the same length as the ...
... wide , three feet in depth , including the washboard , which is sewn to the gunwale , and are hollowed out of a single stem . The most striking feature about them is the balance - log , a solid buoyant outrigger the same length as the ...
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... wide - spreading valley green and grassy , watered by crystal streams , high up among the mountains at the foot of Pedro - talla- galla , the highest mountain in Ceylon . Here one seems to get into England again ; English - looking ...
... wide - spreading valley green and grassy , watered by crystal streams , high up among the mountains at the foot of Pedro - talla- galla , the highest mountain in Ceylon . Here one seems to get into England again ; English - looking ...
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... wide . The embankments are from sixty to seventy feet high , and two hundred feet broad at the base ; they consist of earthwork , faced in some cases with stone . The design of these immense reservoirs was to supply water for the paddy ...
... wide . The embankments are from sixty to seventy feet high , and two hundred feet broad at the base ; they consist of earthwork , faced in some cases with stone . The design of these immense reservoirs was to supply water for the paddy ...
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... wide . The embankments are from sixty to seventy feet high , and two hundred feet broad at the base ; they consist of earthwork , faced in some cases with stone . The design of these immense reservoirs was to supply water for the paddy ...
... wide . The embankments are from sixty to seventy feet high , and two hundred feet broad at the base ; they consist of earthwork , faced in some cases with stone . The design of these immense reservoirs was to supply water for the paddy ...
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Agra ANURAJAPURA Asoka beautiful Benares Bengal boat Bombay Bombay Presidency Brahmans Buddha Buddhist building built Calcutta called capital carved cave centre century Ceylon Christian church coast Colombo colossal DAGOBA DARJEELING Delhi district domes Dravidian east eight elephant English famous fifty feet flowers forest four Ganges gardens gateway Ghât gopuras granite hill Himalayas Hindu Hinduism huge hundred and fifty hundred feet high hundred miles idol idolatry Indus inscription island Jabalpur Jains Kandy land Landour Madras Madras Presidency mission missionary Moguls Mohammedan mosque mountains native northwards Orissa PAGODA palace Parsis peaks PESHAWAR pillars plain population railway Rajah Rajputana red sandstone religion rising river road rock round ruins sacred Sanscrit shrine side Singalese Siva square station stone summit Tamils Tanjore tank temple thousand feet three hundred Tinnevelly tomb tope tower town trees Trichinopoly twenty valley village Vishnu wall white marble worship yards
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Page 11 - Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheered with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 135 - I am now going to the city of Benares to establish the kingdom of righteousness, to give light to those enshrouded in darkness, and to open the gate of immortality to men.
Page viii - What is this world?' says a Brahman sage. 'It is even as the bough of a tree, on which a bird rests for a night, and in the morning flies away.
Page 173 - But when all these admissions in favour of Switzerland are made, the Himalaya still remain unsurpassed, and even unapproached, as regards all the wilder and grander features of mountain scenery. There is nothing in the Alps which can afford even a faint idea of the savage desolation and appalling sublimity of many of the Himalayan scenes.
Page 74 - To the Sepulchres Of the Ancient Kings, which Baly, in his power, Made in primeval times, and built above them A City, like the Cities of the Gods, Being like a God himself. For many an age Hath Ocean warred against his Palaces, Till, overwhelmed, they lie beneath the waves, Not overthrown, so well the awful Chief Had laid their deep foundations.
Page 149 - As it stands on a rising ground, when looked at from below, its appearance is noble beyond that of any portal attached to any mosque in India, perhaps in the whole world.
Page 66 - Rajah shed a flood of tears over his body, and covered it with a gold cloth.
Page 74 - Had swallowed there, when monuments so brave Bore record of their old magnificence. And on the sandy shore, beside the verge Of ocean, here and there, a rock-hewn fane Resisted in its strength the surf and surge...
Page 123 - Famine is the horizon of the Indian villager; insufficient food is the foreground. And this is the more extraordinary since the villager is surrounded by a dreamland of plenty. Everywhere you see fields flooded deep with millet and wheat. The village and its old trees have to climb on to a knoll to keep their feet out of the glorious poppy and the luscious sugar-cane. Sumptuous cream-coloured bullocks move sleepily about with an air of luxurious sloth; and sleek Brahmans utter their lazy prayers...
Page 107 - Msirtyn, who took up his abode there, with an imagination inflamed by the traditions of the place. He " felt something like superstitious dread at being in a place once inhabited as it were by devils ; but yet felt disposed to be triumphantly joyful that the temple where they were worshipped was become Christ's oratory.