Sketches of India: With Notes on the Seasons, Scenery, and Society of Bombay, Elephanta, and Salsette |
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Page xiv
... suffer at this Season . A Glance from our Bungalow . Wonderful changes in the vegetable world . Flowers and fruits , Golden Oriole and jungle cock . Shere Khan and his good works . Neglect of old tanks . Cool breezes and Delhi shawls ...
... suffer at this Season . A Glance from our Bungalow . Wonderful changes in the vegetable world . Flowers and fruits , Golden Oriole and jungle cock . Shere Khan and his good works . Neglect of old tanks . Cool breezes and Delhi shawls ...
Page 42
... suffered much during the voyage from the bad tank that ours had been put into . After so long an absti- nence , I thought I had never in my life tasted any- thing so delicious as this water . Truly , we never know the value of any ...
... suffered much during the voyage from the bad tank that ours had been put into . After so long an absti- nence , I thought I had never in my life tasted any- thing so delicious as this water . Truly , we never know the value of any ...
Page 58
... suffered to remain in a very offensive state , more particularly in the northern quarter of the Fort , which is densely inhabited by the poorer classes of Mohammedans and Parsees , who were accustomed to cast out , in front of their ...
... suffered to remain in a very offensive state , more particularly in the northern quarter of the Fort , which is densely inhabited by the poorer classes of Mohammedans and Parsees , who were accustomed to cast out , in front of their ...
Page 68
... suffer from its dangerous seduction , and which showed for it a decided taste . East - Indian opium , which is inferior to that of Turkey , is generally grown in Malwa , Bahar , and Benares , the great seat of Brahminical learning . It ...
... suffer from its dangerous seduction , and which showed for it a decided taste . East - Indian opium , which is inferior to that of Turkey , is generally grown in Malwa , Bahar , and Benares , the great seat of Brahminical learning . It ...
Page 75
... suffer , by way of expiation for their crimes , the greatest self - imposed tortures ; trusting , that by a life of present misery they might , when death should arrive , be carried on angels ' wings to dwell for ever in happiness with ...
... suffer , by way of expiation for their crimes , the greatest self - imposed tortures ; trusting , that by a life of present misery they might , when death should arrive , be carried on angels ' wings to dwell for ever in happiness with ...
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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