Tours in Upper India, and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains: With Accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes, &c, Volume 1Account of travels 1827-1829 with Lord Combermere to Awad, Bharatpur, Lucknow, Agra, Delhi, Simla. |
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Acbar Agra animal appearance ascent bank beautiful BEGUM SOMROO Bhurtpore Bramins breakfast bridge British Busahir camp cantonments ceremony chief close Commander-in-chief corps crossed cultivation curlew deep deity Delhi Doab dress eight miles elephant English European Excellency feet Ganges Goorchas half half-past handsome hawk hills Himalaya Hindoo Hindoostan honour horse howdah India inhabitants Jauts Jumna Kanowr khund King Kooloo Kotkhai latter Loodianah look Lord Lake Lucknow magnificent matchlocks Meerut ment miles and three Moslem mountains Musjid natives Nawaub numerous Pabur palace party passed Pinjore pitched plains possession present Prince Puttialah quarter rains Rajah Rampore residence ridge river road round ruins Runjeet rupees scenery seen Shah Shah Jehan side Sikhs Simlah snow snowy range sport spot stone stream Subathoo Sutlege temple tent thermometer thick thing tiger TIGER-SHOOTING tion tomb town trees valley village Vizier walls wood
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Page iii - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 144 - When the army was before Bharatpur, in 1826, the Commander-in-chief was desirous that no Native chief of our allies should accompany the besieging force with any of his troops ; this order hurt the pride of the Begam, who remonstrated. She was told that the large and holy place of Muttra was to be confided to her care. 'Nonsense...
Page 139 - ... elephants and make the best of their way to the Company's territories. The Begum had also her own project, and a daring and subtle one it was. She had the wit to know, that in any other country she would soon cease to be in her husband's eye an object of regard, rather perhaps one of forgetfulness if not of active violence: she naturally supposed that the Frenchman cared for her money alone, and would appropriate it to his own peculiar use. With a refinement in hypocrisy, she assented to all...
Page 383 - ... prevented his having recourse to any thing for his work but the simple narration of matter-of-fact occurrences. At this visit to Delhi we did not see the King, but we saw the two younger Princes. The youngest but one affects the manners and habits of Europeans, and is constantly betraying his absurdity by want of reflection; for instance, when he set up an English coach, he insisted that the coachman should not sit above himself. He wears an European-cut coat, with stars on both breasts: top-boots...
Page 78 - The hawk, which was of the long-wing, soaring kind, named a bkyree, proceeded in chase. Aware of his .inability to rise so fast as his quarry, he went away, as if not disposed to come back, but imperceptibly ascending. Having gone far enough, he tacked, and continued to do so until he was above the curlew. These turns which the hawk makes, are very beautiful, and evince great sagacity. In the meantime, the curlew had got so high, as scarcely to be within ken, having also gained a considerable distance...
Page 110 - Feb. 8.—The visit of the Commander-inchief to his Majesty was fixed at eight this morning : the party being ready, proceeded in full state from the Residency to the palace, escorted by a troop of the 16th Lancers, and a troop of Native Cavalry. The preliminaries of etiquette having been satisfactorily adjusted as to the mode of presentation, the Commander-in-chief stipulated that nothing derogatory to his situation or rank should be required; neither on his own part did he desire more than to be...
Page 142 - True it is, that her government was politic and respected when her power was thought of consequence; now, when age has chilled her blood, and the march of events has left her no exercise for those talents, which would have shone with splendour on a more extended theatre, she has turned her attention to the agricultural improvement of her country, though she knows she is planting that which others will reap. Her fields look greener and more flourishing, and the population of her villages appear happier...
Page 207 - Barr is the last stage previous to entering the hills ; and here all camp equipage, tents, carts, and animals, must be quitted for the modes of transport peculiar to the hills: these are porters and mules, though, in the present instance, from the advice of a person who came down to meet the Commander-in-chief, and who ought to have known better, camels were absurdly ordered up. The consequence was, additional trouble, loss, and delay. After all, they were quite unable to reach Simlah, which, it...
Page 287 - Pecca; and so fast is all Nature locked in sleep, that birds and beasts are compelled to bow to Hunger's demands, and to come into the society of man for their subsistence. Some snow fell upon one of the hills close to us, but down below there was only a slight shower of rain. In the afternoon we went down to the temple, the priests, at our solicitation, having agreed (odd and irreverend as it may be deemed) to give the gods a dance. After the prefatory drumming and sounding of horns, two divinities...
Page 179 - ... ground ; the beast dropped the boy and fled, the whole herd pursuing him. The Sikhs abstain most rigidly from the use of beef, or killing cows, or even being concerned in selling them to Europeans; on this point they are more intolerant than the Hindoos (proper) themselves, who, though they will not eat, make no scruple to sell the animal for the purpose of being eaten. Naumuch the founder, to conciliate the two great sects, from which he could alone hope for converts, had the wisdom to humour...