Sketches of India: With Notes on the Seasons, Scenery, and Society of Bombay, Elephanta, and Salsette |
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Page xviii
... Malabar Point and Parell . Unhealthy situation . Island of Salsette , its Antiquities not a part of the Infanta's dowry . Tanks , priests and people there . Village of Walka - es - Warre . Infatuated mendicants . A few words on ...
... Malabar Point and Parell . Unhealthy situation . Island of Salsette , its Antiquities not a part of the Infanta's dowry . Tanks , priests and people there . Village of Walka - es - Warre . Infatuated mendicants . A few words on ...
Page 102
... Malabar Point , being accompanied by priests , jogees , gosaens , and bearers and attendants , who bring with them gilt cocoa - nuts , flowers , mimic temples , deities , packages of cinnabar , and all sorts of things to be presented as ...
... Malabar Point , being accompanied by priests , jogees , gosaens , and bearers and attendants , who bring with them gilt cocoa - nuts , flowers , mimic temples , deities , packages of cinnabar , and all sorts of things to be presented as ...
Page 114
... Malabar - point , where , as I observed , a flag was floating in the grounds attached to the residence of the Governor of Bombay , who had given a sumptuous entertainment on the previous evening , and the returning carriages of whose ...
... Malabar - point , where , as I observed , a flag was floating in the grounds attached to the residence of the Governor of Bombay , who had given a sumptuous entertainment on the previous evening , and the returning carriages of whose ...
Page 160
... Malabar point ; and some small green woodpeckers , with crimson and yellow throats , were often heard and seen by me tapping the dead trees about Parel . I have also seen here the Malabar shrike , ( Lanius Malabaricus , Lath ; ) hoopoe ...
... Malabar point ; and some small green woodpeckers , with crimson and yellow throats , were often heard and seen by me tapping the dead trees about Parel . I have also seen here the Malabar shrike , ( Lanius Malabaricus , Lath ; ) hoopoe ...
Page 205
... Malabar point . My first visit to this Hindoo Golgotha is still fresh upon my memory ; for it left a strong impression not easily to be effaced . Five or six of these pyres had been erected at the head of the bay ; a district that has ...
... Malabar point . My first visit to this Hindoo Golgotha is still fresh upon my memory ; for it left a strong impression not easily to be effaced . Five or six of these pyres had been erected at the head of the bay ; a district that has ...
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