Diary of Travels and Adventures in Upper India: With a Tour in Bundelcund, a Sporting Excursion in the Kingdom of Oude, and a Voyage Down the Ganges, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1843 - India |
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Page xv - I therefore cause to be destroyed; and I proclaim the same in all the congregations; while I pray with every variety of prayer for those who differ from me in creed, that they following after my proper example may with me attain unto eternal salvation; wherefore the present edict of religion is promulgated in the twenty-seventh year of my anointment.
Page 40 - I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes ; Water Parted, or the minuet in Ariadne.
Page 141 - He ran up quite breathless, and opening his wallet. • took out a little octavo half-bound-in-Kussia volume, which he placed in my hands with an air of triumphant satisfaction. " Lo, Sahib ! Lo !" Take it sir — take it! I took and opened the book, and the first glance displayed an old fat lady in a chair. Its title was,
Page 141 - I had never before seen, although I had heard of, the work. I saw another similar etching, and at last laughed heartily, " What do you want for this? How much i"
Page 55 - But the muslin trade has now almost wholly disappeared ; and with it " the thousands of families of muslin weavers, who, from the extreme delicacy of their manufacture, were obliged to work in pits, sheltered from the heat of the sun and changes of the weather ; and even after that precaution, only while the dew lay on the ground, as the increasing heat destroyed the extremely delicate thread.
Page xiv - ... mangalam, the happiness of virtue, which displays itself in benevolence to dependants, reverence to one's pastors, in peace with all men, abundant charity, and so forth, through which alone can the blessings of Heaven be propitiated. ' The tenth paragraph comments upon yaso va kiti va, the glory of renown, which attend merely the vain and transitory deeds of this world.
Page 181 - ... day, while wading on their elephants through a deep marsh in pursuit of a tiger, the chasseurs suddenly stumbled upon a pleasant family party — "a labyrinth of huge boa-constrictors or pythons, sound asleep, floating on a bed of crushed nurkool^ (a gigantic species of reed,) the least of them twenty feet long, and two feet in circumference. A more beautiful natural mosaic cannot be imagined: they appeared, from being wet, as if recently varnished. Perhaps they were from twenty to thirty in...
Page 172 - Bundelcund its wonderful rock pigeon and ortolan inimitable; the Jumna, most ancient of rivers, its large rich Kala banse, and tasty crabs; for him yields the low and marshy Terace her elegant florican; the mighty Gunga its melting mahaseer; the Goomtee its exquisite mullet. And shall he not eat and delight in her fruits? . . . Let the ass eat its thistles, and the swallow its flies au naturel; you and I, reader, know better!
Page 172 - Bleak and barren indeed must that spot be, where the eye of a sound-hearted and skilful gastronomist cannot discover matter for thankfulness ! For him does sad and solitary Ascension gather together her luscious and indescribable turtle; for him the dark rocks and arid plains of the dry Deccan produce their purple grapes, and cunning, but goodly bustard ; for him burning Bundlecund its wonderful rock pigeon, and ortolan inimitable; the Jumna, most ancient of rivers, its large rich kala banse, and...