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Caleb Wright. ENGRAVING , No. 1. Portrait of a Devotee who had been standing eight years , day and night . See description at page 73 . No. 3. Portrait of a Devotee who had kept both. Mohman Khaun, Nabob of Cambay,
Caleb Wright. ENGRAVING , No. 1. Portrait of a Devotee who had been standing eight years , day and night . See description at page 73 . No. 3. Portrait of a Devotee who had kept both. Mohman Khaun, Nabob of Cambay,
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... night . The bearers and other assistants are changed once in about ten miles , or as often as stage - drivers change their horses . The traveller proceeds on his Journey from seventy to ninety miles in twenty - four hours , at an ...
... night . The bearers and other assistants are changed once in about ten miles , or as often as stage - drivers change their horses . The traveller proceeds on his Journey from seventy to ninety miles in twenty - four hours , at an ...
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... night , Calcutta resounded with the sound of gongs , drums , trumpets , and the boisterous shouts of the worshippers . Early the next morning , forty or fifty thousand persons were assembled 5 on the adjoining plain . Processions ...
... night , Calcutta resounded with the sound of gongs , drums , trumpets , and the boisterous shouts of the worshippers . Early the next morning , forty or fifty thousand persons were assembled 5 on the adjoining plain . Processions ...
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... night , for eight years . He had nothing to lean against but a piece of bamboo suspended by cords from the roof of his shed . His dress was a ragged woollen blanket saturated with filth . His face was smeared with the sacred ashes , his ...
... night , for eight years . He had nothing to lean against but a piece of bamboo suspended by cords from the roof of his shed . His dress was a ragged woollen blanket saturated with filth . His face was smeared with the sacred ashes , his ...
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... night , is strewed with travellers of all classes and of both sexes , wrapped separately in their various - colored cotton cloths , and lying side by side like so many bales of merchandise in a warehouse . As choultries are much of the ...
... night , is strewed with travellers of all classes and of both sexes , wrapped separately in their various - colored cotton cloths , and lying side by side like so many bales of merchandise in a warehouse . As choultries are much of the ...
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