Continental India: Travelling Sketches and Historical Recollections [1822-1835] Illustrating the Antiquity, Religion and Manners of the Hindoos, the Extent of British Conquests, and the Progress of Missionary Operations, 2. köideT. Ward & Company, 1840 - 478 pages |
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Page vii
... Parsees , Mohammedans , and other inhabitants of Bombay - The Bedouin traveller - Domestic society at Bombay - Government - houses - Dock - yards - Visit to Ele- phanta - Monumental antiquity - The sail to Taunah in Salsette - The ...
... Parsees , Mohammedans , and other inhabitants of Bombay - The Bedouin traveller - Domestic society at Bombay - Government - houses - Dock - yards - Visit to Ele- phanta - Monumental antiquity - The sail to Taunah in Salsette - The ...
Page 330
... Parsees most prevailed , or had the greatest influence , - their names are so prominent , and so often met in trade as shop- keepers , merchants , and ship - builders : ' Homarjee , ' Jemyjee , ' ' Muntjee , ' & c . , with all such ...
... Parsees most prevailed , or had the greatest influence , - their names are so prominent , and so often met in trade as shop- keepers , merchants , and ship - builders : ' Homarjee , ' Jemyjee , ' ' Muntjee , ' & c . , with all such ...
Page 331
... Parsees , Guzerattees , Arabians , Jews , Armenians , Portuguese , Americans , and British , gave a singularly checquered aspect to the whole settlement . Illustrative of the habits and relations of society , so mingled and gathered ...
... Parsees , Guzerattees , Arabians , Jews , Armenians , Portuguese , Americans , and British , gave a singularly checquered aspect to the whole settlement . Illustrative of the habits and relations of society , so mingled and gathered ...
Page 335
... Parsees , where the body is not entombed or burned , but left to decay , when the loosened bones fall into their place of sepulture -a pit covered by an iron grating . There is , near the point , a cleft in the rock , which is esteemed ...
... Parsees , where the body is not entombed or burned , but left to decay , when the loosened bones fall into their place of sepulture -a pit covered by an iron grating . There is , near the point , a cleft in the rock , which is esteemed ...
Page 337
... Parsees , who are accounted excellent ship - carpenters , and are re- markably assiduous as well as skilful . They have every facility for success in the abundant supply of timber , which the exhaustless teak forests of Ma- labar ...
... Parsees , who are accounted excellent ship - carpenters , and are re- markably assiduous as well as skilful . They have every facility for success in the abundant supply of timber , which the exhaustless teak forests of Ma- labar ...
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