Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 pages |
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... natives , either vendors of the produce of the island or would - be guides , who followed us about like tiresome flies intent on settling on us . We visited the cathedral of St. John , where the knights are buried under a beautiful ...
... natives , either vendors of the produce of the island or would - be guides , who followed us about like tiresome flies intent on settling on us . We visited the cathedral of St. John , where the knights are buried under a beautiful ...
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... native boatswain , who , in his turban glittering with gold em- broidery , and attended by his two Tindals , or boatswain's mates , would assuredly have been mistaken for an Indian prince if he could have been transplanted into the ...
... native boatswain , who , in his turban glittering with gold em- broidery , and attended by his two Tindals , or boatswain's mates , would assuredly have been mistaken for an Indian prince if he could have been transplanted into the ...
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... native boat , with three men , and sailed up the creek to the town of Suez , three miles distant . The behaviour of our boatmen interested me not a little . It 1 Let this be read in the light of present events ( July , 1879 ) . It was ...
... native boat , with three men , and sailed up the creek to the town of Suez , three miles distant . The behaviour of our boatmen interested me not a little . It 1 Let this be read in the light of present events ( July , 1879 ) . It was ...
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... native boats with vociferent Arabs crowded round our ship ; half - naked men with dusky skins swarmed over the front of the vessel . It can easily be imagined that a place where rain only falls about once in two or three years must be ...
... native boats with vociferent Arabs crowded round our ship ; half - naked men with dusky skins swarmed over the front of the vessel . It can easily be imagined that a place where rain only falls about once in two or three years must be ...
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... native tongue Kutchi , and to which he adds Gujarātī , Hindūstānī , and a little English . He was accompanied by a Pathan or Afghan from Peshawar returning home from the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca , which every true Musal- man ...
... native tongue Kutchi , and to which he adds Gujarātī , Hindūstānī , and a little English . He was accompanied by a Pathan or Afghan from Peshawar returning home from the Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca , which every true Musal- man ...
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