Oriental Memoirs: A Narrative Of Seventeen Years Residence In India, Volume 3Richard Bentley, 1834 - 550 pages |
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... houses - Salt - pans - Molungies or Salt - boilers of Bengal - 218 CHAPTER XIII . Brahmins of Malabar - Sacred Rivers of India - Veneration for the Cow - Public Charities - Similarity of the Malabars and Northern CONTENTS . XV Hindoos ...
... houses - Salt - pans - Molungies or Salt - boilers of Bengal - 218 CHAPTER XIII . Brahmins of Malabar - Sacred Rivers of India - Veneration for the Cow - Public Charities - Similarity of the Malabars and Northern CONTENTS . XV Hindoos ...
Page xv
... Houses of the Malabars - Implements of Agriculture- Tribe of Pooleahs Pariars Hindoos and Egyptians - Tribes mentioned by Herodotus ; their Manners and Customs illustrated by those of the Malabars - Paramhansa - Hindoo Anthropophagi ...
... Houses of the Malabars - Implements of Agriculture- Tribe of Pooleahs Pariars Hindoos and Egyptians - Tribes mentioned by Herodotus ; their Manners and Customs illustrated by those of the Malabars - Paramhansa - Hindoo Anthropophagi ...
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... houses at Porto Praya are on a rocky eminence near the watering place ; but below it is a beautiful valley , which we daily visited . Our youthful party were charmed with its novelty , and regaled on the plantains , cocoa - nuts , and ...
... houses at Porto Praya are on a rocky eminence near the watering place ; but below it is a beautiful valley , which we daily visited . Our youthful party were charmed with its novelty , and regaled on the plantains , cocoa - nuts , and ...
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... houses , is sown with rice , or planted with cocoa - nut trees ; which , in extensive woods , lend their friendly shade to thousands of neat cottages , and form delightful rides , impervious to a tropical sun . Of all the gifts which ...
... houses , is sown with rice , or planted with cocoa - nut trees ; which , in extensive woods , lend their friendly shade to thousands of neat cottages , and form delightful rides , impervious to a tropical sun . Of all the gifts which ...
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... houses ; but are most distressing to travellers from milder climates , when passing through a country where no caravansera , tent , or friendly banian- tree , affords a shelter ; the greatest alleviation is a house with thick walls , to ...
... houses ; but are most distressing to travellers from milder climates , when passing through a country where no caravansera , tent , or friendly banian- tree , affords a shelter ; the greatest alleviation is a house with thick walls , to ...
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