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... forest tract in the Delta of the Ganges . Suppoose , chimney of the hookah . Sircar , a native writer . Schroff , banker . Tom - tom , Indian drum . Tattee , screen of grass placed in a window , and cooled by water . Toofaun , hurricane ...
... forest tract in the Delta of the Ganges . Suppoose , chimney of the hookah . Sircar , a native writer . Schroff , banker . Tom - tom , Indian drum . Tattee , screen of grass placed in a window , and cooled by water . Toofaun , hurricane ...
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... forest - trees . We had accom- plished about half the defile , when I was suddenly and rudely awakened from a dozing sleep by the shock of my palankeen coming to the ground , and by the most discord- ant shouts and screams . I jumped ...
... forest - trees . We had accom- plished about half the defile , when I was suddenly and rudely awakened from a dozing sleep by the shock of my palankeen coming to the ground , and by the most discord- ant shouts and screams . I jumped ...
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... forest to make the background more gloomy and unfathomable . The distant halloos of the men who were gone in search of their comrades came faintly and wildly upon the breeze ; and the occasional shots that we fired rang through the ...
... forest to make the background more gloomy and unfathomable . The distant halloos of the men who were gone in search of their comrades came faintly and wildly upon the breeze ; and the occasional shots that we fired rang through the ...
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... forest . In the large cage , crowded toge- ther , and presenting a formidable front of broad , shaggy foreheads well armed with horns , stood a group of buffaloes sternly awaiting the conflict , with their rear scientifically appuyé ...
... forest . In the large cage , crowded toge- ther , and presenting a formidable front of broad , shaggy foreheads well armed with horns , stood a group of buffaloes sternly awaiting the conflict , with their rear scientifically appuyé ...
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... forest , of which every tree and pool of water recalled to my memory some incident or accident of the siege . The next morning , a meeting having been agreed upon between the young Rajah of Bhurtpore ( the same whom we had the honour of ...
... forest , of which every tree and pool of water recalled to my memory some incident or accident of the siege . The next morning , a meeting having been agreed upon between the young Rajah of Bhurtpore ( the same whom we had the honour of ...
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