 | Reginald Heber - India - 1828 - 568 pages
...except of the lowest class, and even these with heavy silver ornaments on their dusky arms and ancles ; while coaches, covered up close with red cloth, are..." Black Town" of Calcutta. The singularity of this spec* tacle Is best and least offensively enjoyed on a noble quay which Lord Hastings built along the... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Africa - 1828 - 412 pages
...jingling of drums, cymbals, &c. in honour of some of their deities ; and add to all this, a villanous smell of garlic, rancid coco-nut oil, sour butter,...what is called the ' Black Town' of Calcutta." " The external meanness of all the shops, depositories, and warehouses in this great city, is surprising.... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1829 - 586 pages
...men with thick sticks, so unmercifully used as to undeceive perfectly all our notions of Brahmin ical humanity ; attendants with silver maces, pressing..." Black Town" of Calcutta. The singularity of this spec8 tacle is best and least offensively enjoyed on a noble quay which Lord Hastings built along the... | |
 | Leonard Crocker Bowles - Bishops - 1831 - 372 pages
...honor of some of their deities ; and add to this all a villanous smell of garlic, rancid cocoa-nut oil, sour butter, and stagnant ditches, and you will...of what is called the ' Black Town ' of Calcutta. ' Our way of life is suited to the climate. The general custom is to rise at six in the cold season,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Gazetteers - 1834 - 748 pages
...jingling of drums, cymbals, &c. in honour of some of their deities; and add to all this, a villanous smell of garlic, rancid coco-nut oil, sour butter,...smells of what is called the Black Town of Calcutta." In 1802, the police magistrates reckoned the population at 600,000 : it is now supposed to amount to... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Geography - 1834 - 740 pages
...and add to all this. 8 ч! linn ms smell of garlic, rancid coco-nut oil, sour butter, and at«anant ditches ; and you will understand the sounds, sights,...smells of what is called the Black Town of Calcutta." In 1802, the police magistrates reckoned the population at 600,000 : it is now supposed to amount to... | |
 | Reginald Heber - Bishops - 1846 - 328 pages
...of the neighbouring seraglios to take what is called "the air;" a constant creaking of cartwheels, which are never greased in India, a constant clamour...spectacle is best and least offensively enjoyed on a noble qnay which Lord Hastings built along the shore of the river, where the vessels of all forms and sizes,... | |
 | Gazetteers - 1856 - 996 pages
...all this, a villanou.t smell of garlic, rancid cocoa-nut oil, soar butter, and stagnant ditche« ; and you will understand the sounds, sights, and smells, of what is called the Black town of C. The external meanness of all the shops, depositories, and warehouses in this great city, is snrprising.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 856 pages
...&<ц in honrar of their deities ; and add to all this a villainous smell «i garlic, rancid cocoa-nut oil, sour butter, and stagnant ditches, and you will understand the sounds, sights, аЫ emolía of what is called the " Black Town " of Calentó. The singularity of this spectacle is... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 824 pages
...cymbals, &c. in honour of their deities; and add to all this a villanous smell of garlic, rancid cocoa-nut oil, sour butter, and stagnant ditches, and you will...all forms and sizes, Arab, Indian, Malay, American, English—the crowds of Brahmins and other Hindoos washing and saying their prayers—the lighted tapers,... | |
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... a constant creaking of cartwheels, which are never greased in India, a constant clamour of voices, and an almost constant thumping and jingling of drums, cymbals, &c., in honour of some of their deities ; and add to all this a villainous smell of... 