Sketches of India: With Notes on the Seasons, Scenery, and Society of Bombay, Elephanta, and Salsette |
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Page 50
... amusement . As a simple sketcher of commou life and every - day scenes in this country , once the land of fable , I will endeavour , as I proceed , to note down the various little peculiarities that struck me as illustrating the ...
... amusement . As a simple sketcher of commou life and every - day scenes in this country , once the land of fable , I will endeavour , as I proceed , to note down the various little peculiarities that struck me as illustrating the ...
Page 63
... amusement and instruction , from observing the important offices which Hindoo feet per- form . The joiner seizes the plank between the soles of his feet , and there holds it firmly , till he has planed it so as to make it suit his ...
... amusement and instruction , from observing the important offices which Hindoo feet per- form . The joiner seizes the plank between the soles of his feet , and there holds it firmly , till he has planed it so as to make it suit his ...
Page 102
... amusements of the pleasure - seeking mul- titude , by acting the part of clowns in the most grotesque and ridiculous manner , with their faces , arms , and legs daubed with paint , and their bodies decked out with scraps of ragged ...
... amusements of the pleasure - seeking mul- titude , by acting the part of clowns in the most grotesque and ridiculous manner , with their faces , arms , and legs daubed with paint , and their bodies decked out with scraps of ragged ...
Page 119
... amusement just at this place , by leaping into the sea from a piece of rock , and diving for a considerable way across the passage we were cautiously steering through . We had now been just two hours upon the water , and some of our ...
... amusement just at this place , by leaping into the sea from a piece of rock , and diving for a considerable way across the passage we were cautiously steering through . We had now been just two hours upon the water , and some of our ...
Page 151
... amusement of a morning from seven o'clock until nine . He is very swift on his little feet , and is compactly and elegantly formed ' ; having a fine brown shining skin beautifully mottled . He has no pouch like the former ; is about ...
... amusement of a morning from seven o'clock until nine . He is very swift on his little feet , and is compactly and elegantly formed ' ; having a fine brown shining skin beautifully mottled . He has no pouch like the former ; is about ...
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amusement animal appear Back Bay beautiful bheestie birds boat Bombay Bombay Castle Brahmins breeze bungalow captain cast centipede character coast cocoa-nut Colabah coloured cool creatures curious dark deck delicious Doorga dreadful earth East Elephanta England English esplanade feet figures flowers fresh fruit Guzerat hand Hindoo honour hot season India inhabitants insects island labour ladies land laudanum live lofty look lovely Malabar Point miles Mohammedan monsoon morning native never night ocean officers once ornaments palanquin Parsee party passed poor Porto Santo Portuguese prayers punkahs rains readers religious residence rich rock roof round rupees sacred sailors Salsette scarcely scene scenery seen seldom servants Shere Khan ship shore side Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy snake soon stone strange streets sweet tank temples thought tiger trees turban vessel voyage walk wonderful wood worship