A Winter in IndiaCassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 - 196 pages Tour 1881-1882 Bombay, Delhi, Lahore, Agra, Lucknow, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Poona & trip to Darjeeling; focus on Afghan policy, Indian economy, Christian education. |
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... lofty mountains of Albania . Passing Cape Matapan , distinctly visible though thirty miles off , we had run 289 miles at noon , and until we got under the lee of Crete the good ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick ...
... lofty mountains of Albania . Passing Cape Matapan , distinctly visible though thirty miles off , we had run 289 miles at noon , and until we got under the lee of Crete the good ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick ...
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... Lofty mountains in Arabia were visible all Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning . I learned to - day that in the Red Sea on Sunday the thermometer in the stoke - hole was 154 ° . We have several excellent artists on board , and ...
... Lofty mountains in Arabia were visible all Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning . I learned to - day that in the Red Sea on Sunday the thermometer in the stoke - hole was 154 ° . We have several excellent artists on board , and ...
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... lofty hills surrounding it being fortified somewhat in the fashion of Verona . drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first experience of riding in a howdah . I thought the motion more un- pleasant , but not ...
... lofty hills surrounding it being fortified somewhat in the fashion of Verona . drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first experience of riding in a howdah . I thought the motion more un- pleasant , but not ...
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William Edward Baxter. most extraordinary place , situated in a hollow , the lofty hills surrounding it being fortified somewhat in the fashion of Verona . After a drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first ...
William Edward Baxter. most extraordinary place , situated in a hollow , the lofty hills surrounding it being fortified somewhat in the fashion of Verona . After a drive of four miles , we found elephants waiting us , and had our first ...
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... lofty hill . While I was sitting in the verandah of the bungalow , in the afternoon , I was surprised and pleased to receive a visit from the Rev. John Traill , a Brechin man , who has been nine years connected with the United ...
... lofty hill . While I was sitting in the verandah of the bungalow , in the afternoon , I was surprised and pleased to receive a visit from the Rev. John Traill , a Brechin man , who has been nine years connected with the United ...
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200 Original 400 Illustrations Agra anchor beautiful Benares Bombay British bungalow Calcutta carriages Cassell's History Cawnpore Cheap Edition Christianity Church classes cloth gilt Co.'s Volumes Continued Cookery Coonoor crowded Crown 8vo Cumballa Cumballa Hill Darjeeling Delhi Demy 4to Dictionary drove English European Extra crown 4to F. E. HULME F. J. FURNIVALL Fac-simile Coloured Plates feet flowers Four Vols Galpin & Co.'s gardens gilt edges Government House half-morocco harbour Hindoo Hindostan Hotel India inhabitants interest Lahore land library binding lofty London Lord Lord Ripon Ludgate Hill Madras Major Baring Malabar Hill ment miles morning morocco mosque mountains native nearly night o'clock officers Original Illustrations passed peaks Petter picturesque plain plantations Poona population railway remarkable revenue river ROBERT BROWN ship Siliguri station steamers Suez Sunday Sunday Musings temples Three Vols tion town travelled trees Wood Engravings
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Page 194 - It has been calculated that the average income per head of population in India is not more than Rs. 27 a year; and though I am not prepared to pledge myself to the absolute accuracy of a calculation of this sort, it is sufficiently accurate to justify the conclusion that the taxpaying community is exceedingly poor. To derive any very large increase of revenue from so poor a population as this is obviously impossible, and, if it were possible, would be unjustifiable.