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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Page 4
... ship is manned chiefly by natives of the East , who go under the general designation of Lascars , most of whom come from the islands and headlands to the north of ON THE ADRIATIC . 5 Bombay , and we have 4 A WINTER IN INDIA .
... ship is manned chiefly by natives of the East , who go under the general designation of Lascars , most of whom come from the islands and headlands to the north of ON THE ADRIATIC . 5 Bombay , and we have 4 A WINTER IN INDIA .
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... ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick for four or five hours . Wednesday was a lovely day , and when I reached the deck at sunrise on Thursday , in the lurid light on the eastern horizon there could be.
... ship plunged so much that many of the passengers were sick for four or five hours . Wednesday was a lovely day , and when I reached the deck at sunrise on Thursday , in the lurid light on the eastern horizon there could be.
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... ship , and has met with a good many mishaps . In 1875 we saw her disabled and being towed in the Suez Canal , and this voyage her engines stopped five times in the Bay of Biscay , so alarming the passengers that they applied to the ...
... ship , and has met with a good many mishaps . In 1875 we saw her disabled and being towed in the Suez Canal , and this voyage her engines stopped five times in the Bay of Biscay , so alarming the passengers that they applied to the ...
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... ship is full , there being 130 first - class passengers , whose easy - chairs cover the quarter - deck . Passing Shadwan Island , where the P. and O. steamship Carnatic was lost , we leave the Gulf of Suez , and , seeing the entrance to ...
... ship is full , there being 130 first - class passengers , whose easy - chairs cover the quarter - deck . Passing Shadwan Island , where the P. and O. steamship Carnatic was lost , we leave the Gulf of Suez , and , seeing the entrance to ...
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... ship was to sail at 5 a.m. prevented us . The cantonments , which are five miles from the harbour , can be seen very distinctly from the sea after leaving . Lofty mountains in Arabia were visible all Wednesday afternoon and Thursday ...
... ship was to sail at 5 a.m. prevented us . The cantonments , which are five miles from the harbour , can be seen very distinctly from the sea after leaving . Lofty mountains in Arabia were visible all Wednesday afternoon and Thursday ...
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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.