Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters Written During Seventeen Years Residence in India ... Observations ... Africa and South America ...Bensley, 1813 |
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... enter into conversation with the strangers , share their sweetmeats , and pay them other little atten- tions , until an opportunity offers of suddenly throwing a rope round their necks with a slip knot , by which they dexterously con ...
... enter into conversation with the strangers , share their sweetmeats , and pay them other little atten- tions , until an opportunity offers of suddenly throwing a rope round their necks with a slip knot , by which they dexterously con ...
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... enter the town , but turn out of the road we were then on , which led to its gates , and ascend the middle hill . Not willing to give umbrage , we complied with the request , and by this means had a leisure view of one face of the town ...
... enter the town , but turn out of the road we were then on , which led to its gates , and ascend the middle hill . Not willing to give umbrage , we complied with the request , and by this means had a leisure view of one face of the town ...
Side 20
... entering a valley between two woody hills , followed its course for some distance . After riding through a thick jungle for three miles , we suddenly came in view of Jercoon , a large fort belonging to Bulwant Sihng , situated on a hill ...
... entering a valley between two woody hills , followed its course for some distance . After riding through a thick jungle for three miles , we suddenly came in view of Jercoon , a large fort belonging to Bulwant Sihng , situated on a hill ...
Side 25
... entered a blacksmith's house , who received me with great civility , and in the course of our conversation , I found I had made a mistake in supposing that the rocks and hills of a ferruginous appearance furnished a quantity of iron ore ...
... entered a blacksmith's house , who received me with great civility , and in the course of our conversation , I found I had made a mistake in supposing that the rocks and hills of a ferruginous appearance furnished a quantity of iron ore ...
Side 33
... enter into Mr. Cruso's detail of Captain Popham's enterprize against the fortress of Gwalier , which is already well known . It then belonged to the Mahratta government , with whom the English were at war . We kept it for ten months ...
... enter into Mr. Cruso's detail of Captain Popham's enterprize against the fortress of Gwalier , which is already well known . It then belonged to the Mahratta government , with whom the English were at war . We kept it for ten months ...
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Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abriged from a Series of Familiar Letters ... James Forbes Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1813 |
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