 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1826 - 624 pages
...superstition, unless indeed they are fraudulently kept up as necessary to blind the eyes of the populace. ' The residence of the White Elephant is contiguous...connected by a long open gallery, supported by numerous wooden pillars, at the further end of which a curtain of black velvet, embossed with gold, conceals... | |
 | Charles Williams - Geography - 1828 - 946 pages
...account of this singular custom is extracted from the journal of a traveller who lately visited Ava ; and ought to inspire deep commiseration for a whole empire...offered to him, consisting of gold and silver muslins, broad-cloths, otto of roses, rose-water, Benares brocades, tea, <fec. <fec. were displayed on carpets.... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1831 - 970 pages
...ambassadors; the order of precedence in Ava being 1st. the king, 2d. the white elephant, and 3d. the queen. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous...connected by a long open gallery supported by numerous wooden pillars, »t the farther end of which a curtain of black velvet, embossed with gold, conceals... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1832 - 546 pages
...ambassadors ; the order of precedence in Ava being 1st. the king, 2d. the white elephant, and 3d. the queen. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous...connected by a long open gallery supported by numerous wooden pillars, at the farther end of which a curtain of black velvet, embossed with gold, conceals... | |
 | Missions - 1799 - 330 pages
...by the monarch himself. The following account of this singular custom, from a traveller's journal, ought to inspire deep commiseration for a whole empire...offered to him, consisting of gold and silver muslins, broad-cloths, otto of roses, rose-water, Benares brocades, tea, &c. &c. were displayed on carpets.... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - Geography - 1839 - 880 pages
...ambassadors ; the order of precedence in Ava being 1 st. the king, 2d. the white elephant, and 3d. the queen. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous to the royal palace, witli which it is connected by a long open gallery supported by numerous wooden pillar», at the farther... | |
 | 176 pages
...people in worshipping an elephant. The following account of that worship will be interesting to you. " The residence of the white elephant is contiguous...offered to him, consisting of gold and silver muslins, broadcloths, otto of roses, rose-water, Benares brocades, tea, etc. etc. were displayed on carpets.... | |
 | Alfred Radford Symonds - India - 1845 - 430 pages
...and the want of one would be deemed a sure sign of some great evil about to come upon the country. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous to the royal palace, and connected with it by a long open gallery, at the further end of which a curtain of velvet embroidered... | |
 | 1847 - 788 pages
...the king ; second, the white elephant ; third, the queen. The residence of the white elephant adjoins the royal palace, with which it is connected by a long open gallery, at the farther end of which, a curtain of black velvet embossed with gold, conceals the august animal... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - India - 1848 - 372 pages
...and the want of one would be deemed a sure sign of some great evil about to come •upon the country. The residence of the white elephant is contiguous to the royal palace, and connected with it by a long open gallery, at the further end of which a curtain of velvet embroidered... | |
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... pillars, at the further end of which a curtain of black velvet, embossed with gold, conceals the august animal from the eyes of the vulgar, and before this curtain the offerings intended for him are displayed. His dwelling is a lofty hall covered... 
