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 |
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... village justice - Persecution and restoration - Savermamukie , the golden face , a celebrated tank - Native labours ... Villages among the trees - Alarm from elephants - Manantoddy , an outpost in the jungles - A rare specimen of ...
... village justice - Persecution and restoration - Savermamukie , the golden face , a celebrated tank - Native labours ... Villages among the trees - Alarm from elephants - Manantoddy , an outpost in the jungles - A rare specimen of ...
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... villages and can- tonments were undertaken . Circumstances led me to cherish a desire to do good among the mili- tary ranks , and to seek their religious improvement . Opportunities most favourable to the indulgence of this disposition ...
... villages and can- tonments were undertaken . Circumstances led me to cherish a desire to do good among the mili- tary ranks , and to seek their religious improvement . Opportunities most favourable to the indulgence of this disposition ...
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... reader itinerates in the surrounding villages ; but a missionary is now stationed at the place with pleasing and en- couraging prospects of success . May the little one become a thousand , and the small one a strong 22 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
... reader itinerates in the surrounding villages ; but a missionary is now stationed at the place with pleasing and en- couraging prospects of success . May the little one become a thousand , and the small one a strong 22 CONTINENTAL INDIA .
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... villages are numerous : about a dozen are within accessible distances , and peopled with industrious husbandmen . The rural popu- lation enjoy the advantages of a secure and peace- ful government , and the stimulus of a proximate and ...
... villages are numerous : about a dozen are within accessible distances , and peopled with industrious husbandmen . The rural popu- lation enjoy the advantages of a secure and peace- ful government , and the stimulus of a proximate and ...
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... villages where it has been cleared , and where the cultivation is varied with an abundance of the banian , the cocoa - nut , and the tamarind trees . Other parts are covered with jungle of a stinted and profitless description . The ...
... villages where it has been cleared , and where the cultivation is varied with an abundance of the banian , the cocoa - nut , and the tamarind trees . Other parts are covered with jungle of a stinted and profitless description . The ...
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