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... traveller proceeds on his Journey from seventy to ninety miles in twenty - four hours , at an expense of about twenty - five cents per mile . No. 24 is a Brahmin engaged in reading and explaining a poem containing some hundred thousand ...
... traveller proceeds on his Journey from seventy to ninety miles in twenty - four hours , at an expense of about twenty - five cents per mile . No. 24 is a Brahmin engaged in reading and explaining a poem containing some hundred thousand ...
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... travellers on the highway and then taking their property . It would be quite inconsistent with their religious principles , to rob any person until he is first deprived of life ... traveller , if they hear or see any LECTURES ON INDIA . 61.
... travellers on the highway and then taking their property . It would be quite inconsistent with their religious principles , to rob any person until he is first deprived of life ... traveller , if they hear or see any LECTURES ON INDIA . 61.
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Caleb Wright. murder a traveller , if they hear or see any thing which , according to their superstitious notions , indicates evil , they allow him to pass on unmolested ; but if the omen is esteemed good , they re- gard it as a positive ...
Caleb Wright. murder a traveller , if they hear or see any thing which , according to their superstitious notions , indicates evil , they allow him to pass on unmolested ; but if the omen is esteemed good , they re- gard it as a positive ...
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Caleb Wright. LECTURES ON INDIA LECTURE II . THE attention of the traveller , in the south - western part of Asia , is frequently arrested by splendid edifices , and occasionally by large cities , long since deserted by their inhabitants ...
Caleb Wright. LECTURES ON INDIA LECTURE II . THE attention of the traveller , in the south - western part of Asia , is frequently arrested by splendid edifices , and occasionally by large cities , long since deserted by their inhabitants ...
Page 90
... travellers . The choultry of Rajah Trimal Naig , at Madura , ( see engraving , number 40 ) consists of one vast hall , three hundred and twelve feet long and one hundred and twenty- five wide . The ceiling is supported by six rows of ...
... travellers . The choultry of Rajah Trimal Naig , at Madura , ( see engraving , number 40 ) consists of one vast hall , three hundred and twelve feet long and one hundred and twenty- five wide . The ceiling is supported by six rows of ...
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