Sketches of India: With Notes on the Seasons, Scenery, and Society of Bombay, Elephanta, and Salsette |
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Page xiii
... Beautiful scenery . A Tiger ; but a stuffed one . My friend's bungalow at Colabah . Its Flowers . Principal buildings in the Fort . A great fire . Street architecture . Minah and other birds in towns . Kindness to animals . Little ...
... Beautiful scenery . A Tiger ; but a stuffed one . My friend's bungalow at Colabah . Its Flowers . Principal buildings in the Fort . A great fire . Street architecture . Minah and other birds in towns . Kindness to animals . Little ...
Page xvii
... beautiful work . English ladies and poor husbands . A box on the ear for stupidity . Indian butter . An old favourite . Sketch of Meeta and Metrane sweepers . Poor despised people . Chandalas forbidden to reside in towns . Their calling ...
... beautiful work . English ladies and poor husbands . A box on the ear for stupidity . Indian butter . An old favourite . Sketch of Meeta and Metrane sweepers . Poor despised people . Chandalas forbidden to reside in towns . Their calling ...
Page 23
... beautiful , that you scarcely know her again . Every- thing , in fact , that you see , as the ship steals through the waste of waters towards its destination , has a freshness and novelty about it which delights and enchants those who ...
... beautiful , that you scarcely know her again . Every- thing , in fact , that you see , as the ship steals through the waste of waters towards its destination , has a freshness and novelty about it which delights and enchants those who ...
Page 28
... beautiful flying - fish ( exocetus volitans ) , so often de- scribed by travellers . Five days after our departure from Porto Santo , we got into their track , and saw shoals of them springing into the air , a height of ten or twelve ...
... beautiful flying - fish ( exocetus volitans ) , so often de- scribed by travellers . Five days after our departure from Porto Santo , we got into their track , and saw shoals of them springing into the air , a height of ten or twelve ...
Page 34
... beautiful ocean . The air was delicious , and Madagascar no longer visible to us . A few albatrosses , those mighty inhabitants of these regions , kept us company ; and some stray Cape pigeons uttered their piercing little cry , as they ...
... beautiful ocean . The air was delicious , and Madagascar no longer visible to us . A few albatrosses , those mighty inhabitants of these regions , kept us company ; and some stray Cape pigeons uttered their piercing little cry , as they ...
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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