The Land of the Permauls, Or, Cochin, Its Past and Its Present

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Gantz Bros., at the Adelphi Press, 1863 - 577 pages

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Page 352 - Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? but ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Page 485 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and to fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 275 - Vedanta not only affirm, that this union and identity are attained through a knowledge of God, as by them taught ; but have hinted, that by such means the particular soul becomes God, even to the actual attainment of supremacy.1 So far the followers of 'the Vedas do not virtually disagree with the Jainas and Bauddhas.
Page 301 - Distinctions of colour are of his ordination. It is he who gives existence. In your temples, to his name the voice is raised in prayer : in a house of images, where the bell is shaken, still he is the object of adoration. To vilify the religion or customs of other men, is to set at naught the pleasure of the Almighty.
Page 443 - they often pass the night drinking the toddy from the chatties in the cocoanut trees, which results either in their returning home in the early morning in a state of extreme and riotous intoxication, or in being found the next day at the foot of the trees, sleeping off the effects of their midnight debauch.
Page 539 - The face of the country was interspersed with groves of innumerable palm-trees, and the diligent natives celebrated, either in verse or prose, the three hundred and sixty uses to which the trunk, the branches, the leaves, the juice, and the fruit were skilfully applied.
Page 469 - Bombay army told me an anecdote illustrative of their sagacity, which he himself witnessed. Some crows had been sitting near a young dog, watching him whilst engaged with a bone. Having apparently concerted the plan, one of them alighted, stepped up and took a peck at the dog's tail ; the dog, irritated, made a snap at the bully ; on which a comrade, who appears to have been ready, made a dash and went off with the prize.
Page 112 - The Portuguese entered India with the sword in one hand and the crucifix in the other; finding much gold, they laid aside the crucifix to fill their pockets...
Page 539 - ... good manure. The shell of the nut furnishes cups, ladles, and other domestic utensils ; while the husk, which encloses it, is of the utmost importance ; it is manufactured into ropes, and cordage of every kind, from the smallest twine to the largest cable, which are far more durable than those of hemp.
Page 40 - ... they go at a great pace. The " bucksheesh " for so many men came to be heavy ! I sent a diver down for a specimen of the mud (which I regret to have lost). It is of a peculiarly greasy nature, dark green in colour, and sticky ; a specimen was analysed at Madras in 1861, and was found to contain — 1. Very minute angular fragments of quartz, the largest hardly visible without a lens ; this is the sand 2. Foraminiferous shells of the genus Rotalia, and a few fragments of larger shells. 3. Upwards...

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