Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative Of Seventeen Years Residence In India, Volum 3Richard Bentley, 1834 - 550 sider |
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Side 9
... delightful . As the season advances towards the commencement of the ensuing monsoon , in the months of April and May , the north - west winds blow strong ; and the ships sailing to the northward , no longer assisted by the land breezes ...
... delightful . As the season advances towards the commencement of the ensuing monsoon , in the months of April and May , the north - west winds blow strong ; and the ships sailing to the northward , no longer assisted by the land breezes ...
Side 12
... delightful rides , impervious to a tropical sun . Of all the gifts which Providence has bestowed on the oriental world , the cocoa - nut tree most deserves our notice . In this single production of nature , what blessings are conveyed ...
... delightful rides , impervious to a tropical sun . Of all the gifts which Providence has bestowed on the oriental world , the cocoa - nut tree most deserves our notice . In this single production of nature , what blessings are conveyed ...
Side 16
... delightful days with large parties , on rural excursions , under a tree supposed by some persons to be that described by Nearchus , and certainly not at all inferior to it . High floods have at various times swept away a considerable ...
... delightful days with large parties , on rural excursions , under a tree supposed by some persons to be that described by Nearchus , and certainly not at all inferior to it . High floods have at various times swept away a considerable ...
Side 23
... delightful ; nothing can exceed its verdure , and general beauty ; but the fervour of a tropical sun soon clothes the earth with a russet hue , which continues until the annual fall of rain ; in that long interval of eight months not a ...
... delightful ; nothing can exceed its verdure , and general beauty ; but the fervour of a tropical sun soon clothes the earth with a russet hue , which continues until the annual fall of rain ; in that long interval of eight months not a ...
Side 25
... the mind , and gives it up to the most delightful sen- sations : independent of the effects of opium , cham- poing , and other luxuries , so much indulged in by the oriental sensualist ! 26 MUS - MALABARICUS . CHAPTER III . Mus -
... the mind , and gives it up to the most delightful sen- sations : independent of the effects of opium , cham- poing , and other luxuries , so much indulged in by the oriental sensualist ! 26 MUS - MALABARICUS . CHAPTER III . Mus -
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abound adorned ancient animal Anjengo appearance Arabian Arabian horses army Asiatic banks Baroche beautiful body Bombay Brahmins called Cambay camels camp carried caste ceremonies character cheeta cocoa-nut colour commenced Concan covered custom Deccan deities delightful distance dreadful durbar elephant Elephanta encamped English Europe European excavations feet flowers Fort Victoria frequently fruit gardens Gaut gold groves Guzerat Hindoo Hindoo temples Hindostan horses houses hundred India inhabitants island king Mahomedan Mahratta Mahratta empire Malabar coast mango manner ment miles Mogul mountains nabob Nairs Narrain Row natives oriental ornament Parsees pepper Persian peshwa Pooleahs Poonah Portugueze princes principal provinces Ragobah rainy season Rajah religion religious residence respective rice river rock rupees sacred Salsette seldom situated sometimes sovereign Surat surrounded tamarind tents thou thousand tion town trade travellers Travencore trees tribe valuable variety venerable vessels villages women Zoroaster