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 IndiaMurray, 1828 - 515 pages |
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Page 34
... Bengal , during the short space of , I believe , three months , seventeen were of children under these circum- stances . Though no slavery legally exists in the British territories at this moment , yet the terms and ges- tures used by ...
... Bengal , during the short space of , I believe , three months , seventeen were of children under these circum- stances . Though no slavery legally exists in the British territories at this moment , yet the terms and ges- tures used by ...
Page 40
... Bengal . They are fond of vegetables , and almost exclusively fed on them ; three of these are very good - natured , and shew their impatience for their meals , ( after which they are said to be very greedy , ) only by a moaning noise ...
... Bengal . They are fond of vegetables , and almost exclusively fed on them ; three of these are very good - natured , and shew their impatience for their meals , ( after which they are said to be very greedy , ) only by a moaning noise ...
Page 44
... Bengal , where so many pow- erful agents of destruction are always at work , that no architecture can be durable , -and though ruins and buildings of apparently remote date are ex- tremely common , it would , perhaps , be difficult to ...
... Bengal , where so many pow- erful agents of destruction are always at work , that no architecture can be durable , -and though ruins and buildings of apparently remote date are ex- tremely common , it would , perhaps , be difficult to ...
Page 52
... Bengal , and therefore placed in the most sheltered situation , and carefully matted round . The sago- palm is a tree of great singularity and beauty , and in a grove or avenue produces an effect of striking BOTANICAL GARDEN . 53 ...
... Bengal , and therefore placed in the most sheltered situation , and carefully matted round . The sago- palm is a tree of great singularity and beauty , and in a grove or avenue produces an effect of striking BOTANICAL GARDEN . 53 ...
Page 54
... Bengal . He is himself a native of Denmark , but left his country young , and has de- voted his life to Natural History and Botany in the East . His character and conversation are more than usually interesting ; the first all frank ...
... Bengal . He is himself a native of Denmark , but left his country young , and has de- voted his life to Natural History and Botany in the East . His character and conversation are more than usually interesting ; the first all frank ...
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