The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia, Volume 17Parbury, Allen, and Company, 1824 - Asia |
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... four years before , will appear almost incredible to any per- son who has not contemplated upon the spot , the rapid progress of the change , and studied the causes by which it has been produced . " These it would be tedious , and ...
... four years before , will appear almost incredible to any per- son who has not contemplated upon the spot , the rapid progress of the change , and studied the causes by which it has been produced . " These it would be tedious , and ...
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... four miles further passed Pepleu , a tolerably large place , in which there are plenty of supplies for any party ; about four miles beyond this is a miserable vil- lage called Billaolee , where there actually were not supplies for my ...
... four miles further passed Pepleu , a tolerably large place , in which there are plenty of supplies for any party ; about four miles beyond this is a miserable vil- lage called Billaolee , where there actually were not supplies for my ...
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... four P.M. marched again for Bhilsa , distance twelve miles ; the road was in general good , but in some places very stony , especially at a village four miles from Bhilsa . The approach to Bhilsa is also very bad ; there is a very large ...
... four P.M. marched again for Bhilsa , distance twelve miles ; the road was in general good , but in some places very stony , especially at a village four miles from Bhilsa . The approach to Bhilsa is also very bad ; there is a very large ...
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... four A. M. started , and a little before daybreak arrived at the village of Rampoor , distance from Durgunpoor seven miles , At nine A.M. arrived at the village of Umerie , and ( Rewah being still distant eight miles ) halted . Umerie ...
... four A. M. started , and a little before daybreak arrived at the village of Rampoor , distance from Durgunpoor seven miles , At nine A.M. arrived at the village of Umerie , and ( Rewah being still distant eight miles ) halted . Umerie ...
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... four P.M. marched again for Kutkunie , distance twelve miles . About four miles from Mowgunge crossed the Kharrie Nullah ; its banks are very steep and stony , guns or wheeled carriages would find great difficulty in passing it . Two ...
... four P.M. marched again for Kutkunie , distance twelve miles . About four miles from Mowgunge crossed the Kharrie Nullah ; its banks are very steep and stony , guns or wheeled carriages would find great difficulty in passing it . Two ...
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Page 159 - Tippoona until evening ; and, as we were preparing to return to the ship, we were drawn to that part of the beach where the prisoners were, by the most doleful cries and lamentations. Here was the interesting young slave in a situation that ought to have softened the heart of the most unfeeling. " The man who had slain her father, having cut off his head, and preserved it by a process peculiar to these islanders, took it out of a basket where it had hitherto been concealed, and threw it into the...
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