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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Page 7
... officers for conveying tent furniture and commissariat stores . For field service , brigades under field officers , and European regiments , a few carriage elephants are supplied . It was an imposing spectacle truly , and , I suppose ...
... officers for conveying tent furniture and commissariat stores . For field service , brigades under field officers , and European regiments , a few carriage elephants are supplied . It was an imposing spectacle truly , and , I suppose ...
Page 10
... officers , conductors of ordnance stores , & c . , and their families , have houses here . Among the latter class , and their country - born con- nexions , as also among the European soldiery , there were frequent opportunities for ...
... officers , conductors of ordnance stores , & c . , and their families , have houses here . Among the latter class , and their country - born con- nexions , as also among the European soldiery , there were frequent opportunities for ...
Page 12
... officer in graphic terms , but with great justice . Its beauty and richness are perfectly oriental . Starting from the Hospital gate of Black Town , you pass the Ophthalmic ( a govern- ment ) Institution on the right , and St. Andrew's ...
... officer in graphic terms , but with great justice . Its beauty and richness are perfectly oriental . Starting from the Hospital gate of Black Town , you pass the Ophthalmic ( a govern- ment ) Institution on the right , and St. Andrew's ...
Page 15
... officer assured me . After passing through a process of severe mental anguish , and encountering much ridicule and opposition from the non - commissioned officers of the regiment , who belonged to the Romish community , he renounced ...
... officer assured me . After passing through a process of severe mental anguish , and encountering much ridicule and opposition from the non - commissioned officers of the regiment , who belonged to the Romish community , he renounced ...
Page 16
... officers attached to the depôt took a personal interest in the spi- ritual concerns of the people ; but , though Gallio- like , they did not object or throw impediments in my way , rather , with courteousness , did they ex- ercise ...
... officers attached to the depôt took a personal interest in the spi- ritual concerns of the people ; but , though Gallio- like , they did not object or throw impediments in my way , rather , with courteousness , did they ex- ercise ...
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