Travels in India: Including Sinde and the Punhab, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845 - India |
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Page 263 - It took its rise about the middle of the fifteenth century, and in the course of a few years reached that height of improvement which is scarcely surpassed even in the present times. The Invention was at first rude and simple, consisting of whole OF FEINTING.
Page 116 - Allahabad runs through the fruitful Doab, which is situated between the Jumna and the Ganges, only a few miles distant from the latter river ; and its peculiar freshness in this dry season was very remarkable. It is a boundless garden, in which sugar-cane, indigo, cotton, poppy, wheat, barley, and many vegetables flourish. Beautiful groves of mangoes, tamarinds, and bananas, overshadow the villages, pagodas, mosques, and tanks, and give an ever-varying beauty to the landscape, which is animated by...
Page 38 - Thus, then, persons and letters, with the exception of short distances, are forwarded only by men. On these dawk roads, are small houses (dawk bungalows) at intervals of every twenty miles, in which the traveller, for a rupee per day, finds accommodation and attendance, and may refresh himself with a bath ; but some necessaries, such as tea, sugar, wine, and bread, he must take with him in his palanquin. As there are no inns whatever, the traveller in India is compelled to have recourse to the hospitality...
Page 41 - Ham, ram! and whenever we approached a new stage all the bearers set up a shrill cry to announce that they were coming. After the usual salutations, and a few questions, the bearers, panting and blowing, proceeded rapidly: the torch-bearer runs by the side, occasionally feeding his cotton torch with oil, which he carries with him in a wooden bottle, or a bamboo cane, and the oldest of this indefatigable crew, on taking leave, adds a petition for money ; " Sahib, bakshich " (sir, a present, a gift),...
Page 272 - Shasters, that they contain the true religion. I have not the power to come up to the purity of its precepts, but here is my son, take him as your child ; feed him at your table, and bring him up a Christian...
Page 37 - I received from all quarters made it painful to take leave of such dear friends ; but, it is a happy feature in the character of the Englishman, that he preserves an attachment, which he has once conceived, during his whole life. To his practical good sense, his desire to acquire solid knowledge, and his elevated moral standard, England is indebted for her greatness and her power. I have never seen these virtues so predominant as in this country. The more I learn of England's mode of government here,...
Page 16 - Delhi, especially in filigree, are more ingenious, tasteful, and inexpensive than any where in India, and far excel those of Genoa. Paintings on ivory, portraits, as well as buildings and processions, are executed here in the greatest perfection, and would do honour even to our best artists. Not merely is the likeness admirable, but the delicacy and fidelity of the execution are very great.
Page 177 - European father and a native mother,) and 19,804 of low castes. For the preservation of personal security, there is a police, with a magistrate at its head, and to which 8147 Thannadars, Naibs, Chokidars, Jemadars, and Burkandazes belong. The climate of Calcutta may be inferred from its situation in a damp hollow, on the banks of one of the largest rivers in the world. Each season has its peculiar dangers ; in the hot months, fevers and...
Page 282 - Hut, alas ! alas ! our countrymen are still asleep, still sleeping the sleep of death. Rise up, ye sons of India, arise, see the glory of the Sun of Righteousness ! Beauty is around you, life blooms before you ; why, why will ye sleep the sleep of death ? And shall we who have drunk in that beauty...
Page 17 - Princep succeeded in deciphering that in the Pali language. It is an edict of As-6-ko, the Bhoodist king of all India, who lived from 325 to 288 BC, forbidding the destruction of living animals, and enforcing the observance of Bhoodism. The Feroze-Cotelah consists of one piece of brown granite ; it is ten feet in circumference, and, gradually tapering towards the summit, rises to the height of 42 feet. It is embedded in the platform of the completely ruined palace. The sun was nearly setting when...