Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India: From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 ; with Notes Upon Ceylon, an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826 and Letters Written in IndiaJ. Murray, 1846 |
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Abdullah Allahabad Almorah animals answered appearance asked attended bamboos bank Bareilly beautiful Benares Bengal boats Boulderson Brahmin breeze building Calcutta called Captain Cawnpoor Christian Chunar church Company's considerable Corrie coss Dacca Delhi distance dress elephant England English European extremely favourable feet Ganges Government handsome heard hills Hindoo Hindoostanee horse India Jemautdar journey jungle Kemaoon kind king less looking Lord Lord Hastings Lucknow Meerut Mendee ment miles Monghyr morning mosque mountains Mussulmans native neighbourhood neighbouring never night noble o'clock Oude pagoda palace passed pinnace poor prayers present pretty pulwar rain Raja received residence river road round ruins rupees saees seemed seen sent Sepoys serang servants side silver sticks soon sort stream Sunderbunds supposed suttees tents tiger tion to-day told tomb town trees usual vessel village walk whole wild wind young Zemindars
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Page 113 - O'er Gunga's mimic sea! I miss thee at the dawning gray, When on our deck reclined, In careless ease my limbs I lay, And woo the cooler wind. I miss thee when by Gunga's stream My twilight steps I guide, But most beneath the lamp's pale beam I miss thee from my side.
Page 307 - For, oh, if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this ! There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ; One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss : And oh...
Page 111 - To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 162 - Fakirs' houses, as they are called, occur at every turn, adorned with idols, and sending out an unceasing tinkling and strumming of vinas, biyals, and other discordant instruments ; while religious mendicants of every Hindoo sect, offering every conceivable deformity, which chalk, cow-dung, disease, matted locks, distorted limbs and disgusting and hideous attitudes of penance can show, literally line the principal streets on both sides.
Page 115 - mid charcoal gleams, The Moslems' savoury supper steams, While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food. Come walk with me the jungle through : If yonder hunter told us true, Far off in desert dank and rude, The tiger holds...
Page 115 - And moor'd beneath the tamarind bough, .Our bark has found its harbour now. With furled sail, and painted side, Behold the tiny frigate ride. Upon her deck, 'mid charcoal gleams, The Moslems' savoury supper steams, While all apart, beneath the wood, The Hindoo cooks his simpler food.
Page 256 - ... latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet, and then woe be to him ! The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully torn, and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with.
Page 115 - Whose plumes the dames of Ava prize. So rich a shade, so green a sod Our English fairies never trod. Yet who in Indian bowers has stood, But thought on England's
Page 251 - Yet, during the time of the heaviest rains, while the water falls in torrents, and the cloudy sky tends to prevent evaporation from the ground, the forest may be passed with tolerable safety. It is in the extreme heat, and immediately after the rains have ceased, in May, the latter end of August, and the early part of September, that it is most deadly.
Page 115 - Enough, enough, the rustling trees Announce a shower upon the breeze, — The flashes of the summer sky Assume a deeper, ruddier dye; Yon lamp that trembles on the stream, From forth our cabin sheds its beam ; And we must early sleep, to find Betimes the morning's healthy wind. But oh ! with thankful hearts confess Ev'n here there may be happiness ; And He, the bounteous Sire, has given His peace on earth— his hope of heaven !