A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time: Arranged in Systematic Order, Geographical and Chronological. The Whole Exhibiting a Faithful and Lively Delineation of the World. Carefully Selected from Writers of Different Nations. In Four Volumes, Bind 4Mackenzie and Dent, 1818 |
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... kind , viz . 1-10th of the commodity . These robbers , when the season of the year did not admit of their plundering on the water , sought adventures by land ; and , as the Birmans allege , conveyed their booty of goods and cattle ...
... kind , viz . 1-10th of the commodity . These robbers , when the season of the year did not admit of their plundering on the water , sought adventures by land ; and , as the Birmans allege , conveyed their booty of goods and cattle ...
Side 60
... kind ; it is the work of captain Cooper of the company's engineers . There is a steam engine for pumping it dry , the only one on the island . Bombay is the only place in the east where the rise of tide is sufficient to construct docks ...
... kind ; it is the work of captain Cooper of the company's engineers . There is a steam engine for pumping it dry , the only one on the island . Bombay is the only place in the east where the rise of tide is sufficient to construct docks ...
Side 68
... kind of large brazen trumpet , which requires two people to carry it , making altogether the most horrible din I ever heard . These processions , with the picturesque dresses of the natives , and their graceful attitudes , the torches ...
... kind of large brazen trumpet , which requires two people to carry it , making altogether the most horrible din I ever heard . These processions , with the picturesque dresses of the natives , and their graceful attitudes , the torches ...
Side 70
... kind of elegance , near the river Mootha , on which the town stands . As we entered the court , we saw a number of persons engaged in the honourable and holy office of mixing the sacred cow - dung to be spread on the floors of the bara ...
... kind of elegance , near the river Mootha , on which the town stands . As we entered the court , we saw a number of persons engaged in the honourable and holy office of mixing the sacred cow - dung to be spread on the floors of the bara ...
Side 72
... kind of box divided into two parts ; the front containing a seat large enough for two or three persons , and the back a space for the servant who bears the umbrella . The driver sits astride on the animal's neck , and with one foot ...
... kind of box divided into two parts ; the front containing a seat large enough for two or three persons , and the back a space for the servant who bears the umbrella . The driver sits astride on the animal's neck , and with one foot ...
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