Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold or silk, carried by six or eight men, and eight or ten men go before each, playing on drums, shawms, and other instruments. The Family Library (Harper). - Page 2091844Full view - About this book
| 1832 - 298 pages
...He goes to wash beneath a canopy of cloth of gold, carried by six or eight men ; and when he comes out of the river he has a gentleman to wash his feet in a silver basin ! Birds of all kinds abound in this kingdom, nightingales and parrots, peacocks and humming birds,... | |
| James Rennie - 1831 - 422 pages
...gilt silver. Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold or silk, carried by six or eight men, and eight or...instruments. When each has washed and is come out of * D'Herbelot. the river, he has a gentleman to wash his feet in a silver basin, which office is appointed... | |
| James Rennie - 1831 - 434 pages
...gilt silver. Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold or silk, carried by six or eight men, and eight or ten men go before tach, playing on drums, shawms, and other instruments. When each has washed and is come out of * D'Herbslot,... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 432 pages
...gilt silver. Every day, when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold or silk, carried by six or eight men; and eight or...such account made of the black elephants, be they ever so great ; and some of them are wonderfully large and handsome, some being nine cubits high. "... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 pages
...day, when they go to the river to wash, " toue НТО°"™<=each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold or silk, carried by six or eight men ; and eight or ten men go before each, playing on drums, »líateme, and other instruments. When each has washed, and is come out of the river, he has a gentleman... | |
| William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...silver gilt. Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold or silk, carried by six or eight men ; and eight or...gentleman to wash his feet in a silver basin, which officer is appointed by the king." The veneration paid to this animal by the Burmese is so great, "... | |
| James Greenwood - 1862 - 438 pages
...gilt silver. Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold, or silk, carried by six or eight men, and eight or ten men go before, each playing on drums, sltawms, and other instruments. When each has bathed and has come out of the river, he has a gentleman... | |
| World - 1868 - 530 pages
...silver-gilt. Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold, or silk, carried by six or eight men ; and eight or ten men go before each, playing on drums and shawms, and other instruments. When each has washed, and is come out of the river, he has a gentleman... | |
| James Greenwood - 1870 - 496 pages
...gilt silver. Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold, or silk, carried by six or eight men, and eight or...drums, shawms, and other instruments. When each has bathed and has come out of the river, he has a gentleman to wash his feet in a silver basin, and this... | |
| World - 1874 - 454 pages
...silver-gilt. Every day when they go to the river to wash, each goes under a canopy of cloth of gold, or silk, carried by six or eight men ; and eight or ten men go before each, playing on drums and shawms, and other instruments. When each has washed, and is come out of the river, he has a gentleman... | |
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