Reminiscences of Sport in IndiaW.H. Allen & Company, 1885 - 419 Seiten |
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... encamped at a village - Parawat - about twenty miles from Vellore , in a wild hilly tract of jungle . When we had ridden about fifteen miles , we resolved to wait for our servants and commissariat to come up ; and a very long time we ...
... encamped at a village - Parawat - about twenty miles from Vellore , in a wild hilly tract of jungle . When we had ridden about fifteen miles , we resolved to wait for our servants and commissariat to come up ; and a very long time we ...
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... encamped at Kota Mungelgherry , a place possessed of a very tall and sacred pagoda . Lottery tickets were then very fashionable , and were issued yearly or half - yearly by the Government , and several tickets were bet upon the height ...
... encamped at Kota Mungelgherry , a place possessed of a very tall and sacred pagoda . Lottery tickets were then very fashionable , and were issued yearly or half - yearly by the Government , and several tickets were bet upon the height ...
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... encamped close to the entrance of a large village , saw a gay marriage procession issue out and pass along the road immediately in front of the camp . All hands turned out to see this grand procession , which ( it was just night - fall ) ...
... encamped close to the entrance of a large village , saw a gay marriage procession issue out and pass along the road immediately in front of the camp . All hands turned out to see this grand procession , which ( it was just night - fall ) ...
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... encamped at Lingumpillay , which is on the high road from Hyderabad to Kandahar ( not the Kandahar of Affghanistan , but a district of the Hyderabad country ) , we saw a rabble rout of the Nizam's irregular troops going out to coerce ...
... encamped at Lingumpillay , which is on the high road from Hyderabad to Kandahar ( not the Kandahar of Affghanistan , but a district of the Hyderabad country ) , we saw a rabble rout of the Nizam's irregular troops going out to coerce ...
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... encamped at Chinnoor , about six miles short of the station . Some of us rode into Cuddapah that day , and two or three who did so nearly came to grief in quicksands , or , more pro- perly , mud - holes , into which they plunged , horse ...
... encamped at Chinnoor , about six miles short of the station . Some of us rode into Cuddapah that day , and two or three who did so nearly came to grief in quicksands , or , more pro- perly , mud - holes , into which they plunged , horse ...
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