A Narrative of the Extraordinary Adventures: And Sufferings by Shipwreck & Imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, ... with the Singular Humours of His Tartar Guide, Hassan Artaz: ... in an Overland Journey to India. Faithfully Abstracted from Capt. Campbell's "Letters to His Son."Vernor and Hood, 1796 - 276 pages |
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Page 260 - ... on them : they then poured on the pile, above where the woman lay, a potful of fomething that appeared to me to be oil ; after this they heaped on more wood, to the height of about four feet above where the bodies were built in; fo that all I now faw was a ftack of fire-wood.
Page 259 - ... and fat herfelf down on the right fide of her hufband, who had been previoufly laid upon the pile. She then unfcrewed the pins which...
Page 105 - ... that it would neither be in character, nor have any good effect, and that if I prefumed to fpeak, my guide would be obliged in my defence to give me a flogging in order to prevent • fufpicion.
Page 258 - THE dead hufband, who, from his appearance, feemed to be about fixty years of age, was lying clofe by, flretched out on a bier, made of bamboo canes. Four bramins walked in proceffion three times round the dead body, firft. in a direction contrary to the fun, and afterwards other three times in a direction with the fun, all the while muttering •incantations ; and at each round or circuit they made, they...
Page 110 - At fome caravanferas he treated me with affected negligence, at others he made me eat with him and drink wine, of which, in fome places, he himfelf drank copioufly, and ut others as fcrupuloufly refrained from.
Page 171 - I lost my hold, fell down the hatchway (the gratings having been carried away with the long-boat),, and was for...
Page 175 - I lost it again. I had often heard it said in Scotland, that if a man will throw himself flat on his back in the water, lie quite...
Page 259 - I was gone about five hundred yards, they fent fome one to tell me they would" burn immediately ; on which I returned, and found the woman had been moved from where fhe was fitting to the river, where the Bramins were bathing her. On taking her out of the water, they put fome money in her hand, which...
Page 191 - Having thus, with equal zeal and fidelity, endeavoured to imprefs me with veneration for his Lord and Mafter , and for that purpofe attributed to him every perfection that may be fuppofed. to be divided among all the Kings...
Page 86 - ... which he uttered, than in his fatire; that he was always well received and applauded, even venerated (as we venerate the liberty of the...