Sketches of India: With Notes on the Seasons, Scenery, and Society of Bombay, Elephanta, and Salsette |
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... all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers . - STERNE . LONDON : PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN , MARSHALL & Co. STATIONERS ' HALL COURT . MDCCL . DEDICATION . ΤΟ MRS . MILNER . DEAR MADAM , SKETCHES OF INDIA :
... all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers . - STERNE . LONDON : PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN , MARSHALL & Co. STATIONERS ' HALL COURT . MDCCL . DEDICATION . ΤΟ MRS . MILNER . DEAR MADAM , SKETCHES OF INDIA :
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... fruits , Golden Oriole and jungle cock . Shere Khan and his good works . Neglect of old tanks . Cool breezes and Delhi shawls . A peep into the sick man's chamber . Jellies and sweet peas . How to eat Mangoes . Poisonous miasma . of ...
... fruits , Golden Oriole and jungle cock . Shere Khan and his good works . Neglect of old tanks . Cool breezes and Delhi shawls . A peep into the sick man's chamber . Jellies and sweet peas . How to eat Mangoes . Poisonous miasma . of ...
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... fruit , fresh meat , and other good things necessary for the voyage . After a re- quest that she should be reported as soon as we should arrive in Bombay , from whence she had sailed— which request was roared through a speaking- trumpet ...
... fruit , fresh meat , and other good things necessary for the voyage . After a re- quest that she should be reported as soon as we should arrive in Bombay , from whence she had sailed— which request was roared through a speaking- trumpet ...
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... fruit and its wax - like flowers . Shading the dining - room windows was a shrub , about eight feet high , that every morning during the two months of my residence with my friend , was loaded with hundreds of large brilliant yellow ...
... fruit and its wax - like flowers . Shading the dining - room windows was a shrub , about eight feet high , that every morning during the two months of my residence with my friend , was loaded with hundreds of large brilliant yellow ...
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... fruits in manhood ; for the domestic hearth of the gentle Hindoo is never so happy as when surrounded by his descendants , even to the second and third generations . In short , nothing but poverty or death ever separates the members of ...
... fruits in manhood ; for the domestic hearth of the gentle Hindoo is never so happy as when surrounded by his descendants , even to the second and third generations . In short , nothing but poverty or death ever separates the members of ...
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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