A Voyage to China: Including a Visit to the Bombay Presidency; the Mahratta Country; the Cave Temples of Western India, Singapore, the Straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the Cape of Good Hope, Volume 1W. Shoberl, 1850 - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
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Page 168 - ... surely it may be termed, considering the immense workmanship of such an excavation ; and seems to me a- far more bold attempt than that of the pyramids of Egypt. There is a fair entrance into this subterraneous temple, which is an oblong square, in length about 80 or 90 feet, by 40 broad.
Page 251 - The whole appearance of this excavated mountain indicates it to have had a city hewn in its rocky sides, capable of containing many thousand inhabitants : the largest temple was doubtless their principal place of worship...
Page 168 - ... to me a far more bold attempt than that of the pyramids of Egypt. " There is a fair entrance into this subterraneous temple, which is an oblong square, in length about 135 feet by 120 broad.
Page 167 - ... being naturally of the colour of that beast. It stands on a platform of stones of the same colour. On the back of this elephant was placed standing, another young one, appearing to have been all of the same stone, but has been "long broken down.
Page 167 - It can at most be but about three miles in compass, and consists of almost all hill ; at the foot of which as you land, you see, just above the shore, on your right, an elephant, coarsely cut out in stone, of the natural bigness, and at some little distance not impossible to be taken for -a real elephant, from the stone being naturally of the colour of that beast. It stands on a platform of stones of the same colour. On the back of this elephant was placed standing, another young one, appearing to...
Page 168 - I could not discern any thing that did not shew it to be all of one piece. It is about ten feet high, and supported towards the middle, at equi-distance from the sides, and from one another, with two regular rows of pillars of a singular .order. They are very massive, short in proportion to their thickness^ and their capital bears some resemblance to a round cushion, pressed by the super-incumbent mountain, with which they are also of one piece. At the further end of this temple are three gigantic...
Page 25 - Multum in parvo ! pro bono publico ! Entertainment for man or beast, all of a row ; Lekker kost, as much as you please ; Excellent beds, without any fleas. Nos patriam fugimus ! now we are here, Vivamus ! let us live by selling beer. On donne a boire et a manger ici ; Come in and try it, whoever you be.
Page 281 - ... outside our silken screen. A cup of tea, and a slice of bread and butter, constituted our evening meal, and then we prepared for rest. The lamps of cocoa-nut oil were placed on the matting ; the...
Page 270 - The chapel of former times has been made a vast dining-room ; the chancel a billiard-room — a sad desecration, to which time, however, has reconciled the inmates of the dwelling. Above this transformed church a suite of drawing-rooms has been built, opening into lofty stone corridors hung with the painted lamps of China. The sleeping apartments are also in suites, and to each is attached a sitting-room and baths. The...
Page 280 - No : when I wish for dancing, I need not do it myself ; I get people to dance for me ; and I wonder the rich English do not so likewise, instead of dancing themselves.