Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877Library of Alexandria, 2008 M01 1 |
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... seen, as that which looked at a distance like marble is found to be stucco and plaster. Behind Chowringhee are a number of wide streets with similar, but generally smaller houses, each apart, with offices and servants' houses in the ...
... seen, as that which looked at a distance like marble is found to be stucco and plaster. Behind Chowringhee are a number of wide streets with similar, but generally smaller houses, each apart, with offices and servants' houses in the ...
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... seen dropping from the banks into the stream on hearing the approach of the steamer. We saw no tigers, but we heard much about them as we were threading our way through that region. The previous year, early one morning, the watch on the ...
... seen dropping from the banks into the stream on hearing the approach of the steamer. We saw no tigers, but we heard much about them as we were threading our way through that region. The previous year, early one morning, the watch on the ...
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... seen. The native craft, so unlike the vessels of our own country, with their lofty prows and sterns, and great ragged square sails, many laden with wood and grass, which made them like moving stacks, were constant objects of interest ...
... seen. The native craft, so unlike the vessels of our own country, with their lofty prows and sterns, and great ragged square sails, many laden with wood and grass, which made them like moving stacks, were constant objects of interest ...
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... seen at a short distance the domes of some of the principal temples, and the minarets of some of the principal mosques, especially those of the mosque built by Aurungzeb, soaring far above every other object in the city. I had dimly seen ...
... seen at a short distance the domes of some of the principal temples, and the minarets of some of the principal mosques, especially those of the mosque built by Aurungzeb, soaring far above every other object in the city. I had dimly seen ...
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... seen who had become orphans, or who had been abandoned by their parents. At this terrible crisis missions came forward with the offer of adopting these forsaken children. Fifty were made over to the Church Mission at Benares, and ...
... seen who had become orphans, or who had been abandoned by their parents. At this terrible crisis missions came forward with the offer of adopting these forsaken children. Fifty were made over to the Church Mission at Benares, and ...
Contents
CHAPTER XVI THE MUTINY OF 185758 | |
CHAPTER XVII THE OUTBREAK AT BENARES | |
CHAPTER XVIII VISIT TO CEYLON AND RETURN TO BENARES | |
CHAPTER XIX VISIT TO CITIES IN THE NORTHWEST AND TO KUMAONVISIT TO ENGLAND AND RETURN TO INDIA | |
CHAPTER XX KUMAON | |
CHAPTER XXI THE ALMORA MISSION | |
CHAPTER XXII RANEE KHET MISSION | |
CHAPTER XXIII HABITS AND CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE MISSION WORK AND RETIREMENT | |
CHAPTER IX MY SECOND YEAR IN BENARES | |
CHAPTER X THE RELIGIOUS GATHERINGS OF THE HINDUS | |
CHAPTER XI THE OBJECT OF MISSIONS AND VARIOUS MODES OF OPERATION | |
CHAPTER XII SCHOOLS | |
CHAPTER XIII ORPHANAGES | |
CHAPTER XIV MISSION TOURS | |
CHAPTER XV RETURN TO BENARES | |
CHAPTER XXIV THE MISSIONARY IN INDIA | |
CHAPTER XXV THE MISSIONARY IN INDIA Continued | |
CHAPTER XXVI NATIVE CHRISTIANS | |
CHAPTER XXVII NATIVE CHRISTIANS Continued | |
CHAPTER XXVIII THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM WE LABOUR | |
CHAPTER XXIX THE PEOPLE AMONG WHOM WE LABOUR Continued | |
CHAPTER XXX EUROPEANS IN INDIA | |
CHAPTER XXXI THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA | |
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