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 6
... receiving three fanams , or sixpence for every ten miles ; or if the traveller means to go dawk , or with speed , he can have relays of bearers posted at stages of ten or twenty miles ; but one set of bearers will run forty miles for ...
... receiving three fanams , or sixpence for every ten miles ; or if the traveller means to go dawk , or with speed , he can have relays of bearers posted at stages of ten or twenty miles ; but one set of bearers will run forty miles for ...
Page 18
... received . There is no municipal , and hardly any military authority , or restraint ; and , while every man may do what is pleasing in his own eyes , certain mercenary adven- turers have frequently introduced to the pensioners a supply ...
... received . There is no municipal , and hardly any military authority , or restraint ; and , while every man may do what is pleasing in his own eyes , certain mercenary adven- turers have frequently introduced to the pensioners a supply ...
Page 24
... received by the soldiers . The former never failed to prepare for me a room with every convenience , and a place at their mess - table , or all necessary comfort in the hospitable abode of my friend ; and the latter always arranged for ...
... received by the soldiers . The former never failed to prepare for me a room with every convenience , and a place at their mess - table , or all necessary comfort in the hospitable abode of my friend ; and the latter always arranged for ...
Page 37
... received . A few bruises , slight and immaterial , were the only consequence ; though , had a bone been broken , or a limb dislocated , my mirth would have been turned into grief very suddenly , and my perplexity would not have been the ...
... received . A few bruises , slight and immaterial , were the only consequence ; though , had a bone been broken , or a limb dislocated , my mirth would have been turned into grief very suddenly , and my perplexity would not have been the ...
Page 47
... . Here the idolater performed similar cere- monies to the goddess : at the conclusion , the same gifts were bestowed , except the ashes ; instead of which a small quantity was received of yellow and red NOTES OF A MISSION . 47.
... . Here the idolater performed similar cere- monies to the goddess : at the conclusion , the same gifts were bestowed , except the ashes ; instead of which a small quantity was received of yellow and red NOTES OF A MISSION . 47.
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