The British World in the East: A Guide Historical, Moral, and Commercial, to India, China, Australia, South Africa, and the Other Possessions Or Connexions of Great Britain in the Eastern and Southern Seas, 1. köideW.H. Allen, 1846 - 512 pages |
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... till they are entirely lost in a desert of sand and rocks , near the further border of which lies the course of the Helmund . On the east they sink more suddenly into the plain of Cutch Gundava ; and through the mountains between opens ...
... till they are entirely lost in a desert of sand and rocks , near the further border of which lies the course of the Helmund . On the east they sink more suddenly into the plain of Cutch Gundava ; and through the mountains between opens ...
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... till they reach the stupendous height of twenty thousand feet . Cabool river runs eastward into the Indus , and the Helmund is the grand duct of the west , carrying the waters of that part of the country into the extra- ordinary swamp ...
... till they reach the stupendous height of twenty thousand feet . Cabool river runs eastward into the Indus , and the Helmund is the grand duct of the west , carrying the waters of that part of the country into the extra- ordinary swamp ...
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... till the inhabitants might seem to burrow in their own abomi- nations . The ruins in the neighbourhood testify that Herat was formerly of much greater magnitude , and they also indicate its misfortune in being the outpost of Affghanis ...
... till the inhabitants might seem to burrow in their own abomi- nations . The ruins in the neighbourhood testify that Herat was formerly of much greater magnitude , and they also indicate its misfortune in being the outpost of Affghanis ...
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... till their spirits were broken by foreign tyranny , and they gradually acquired the vices of slaves . As for the women , their beauty has not been their own since it first attracted the ruffian lust of the conquerors of their country ...
... till their spirits were broken by foreign tyranny , and they gradually acquired the vices of slaves . As for the women , their beauty has not been their own since it first attracted the ruffian lust of the conquerors of their country ...
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... till they disputed the throne with the sovereign of the country . Wars and treasons were the result , till the Tartar dynasty of China sided with its co - religionists , and the Grand Lama became both prince and pontiff . By de- grees ...
... till they disputed the throne with the sovereign of the country . Wars and treasons were the result , till the Tartar dynasty of China sided with its co - religionists , and the Grand Lama became both prince and pontiff . By de- grees ...
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