Reminiscences of Sport in IndiaW.H. Allen & Company, 1885 - 419 Seiten |
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... turned a few miles out of the road to see the famous temples of Conjeveram . Here I had my first introduction to Brahmins , temple dancing - girls , & c . , was duly gar- landed with stinking marigolds , and paid a rupee or two in ...
... turned a few miles out of the road to see the famous temples of Conjeveram . Here I had my first introduction to Brahmins , temple dancing - girls , & c . , was duly gar- landed with stinking marigolds , and paid a rupee or two in ...
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... turned to and rum- maged the one basket which had fortunately kept up with us . In this precious basket we found a ham , and two or three bottles of beer . Ham by itself , and raw , is not good , and we were still some way from a ...
... turned to and rum- maged the one basket which had fortunately kept up with us . In this precious basket we found a ham , and two or three bottles of beer . Ham by itself , and raw , is not good , and we were still some way from a ...
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... turned up blanks , so that Government was the only gainer by the transaction . The bets were decided by a measurement taken at both places . There is an old story that a common coolie at Madras , having by hard work , or good luck , or ...
... turned up blanks , so that Government was the only gainer by the transaction . The bets were decided by a measurement taken at both places . There is an old story that a common coolie at Madras , having by hard work , or good luck , or ...
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... turned out to see this grand procession , which ( it was just night - fall ) was lighted up with torches . A splendid scarlet - housed palanquin was , as usual on such occasions , carried in the centre of the throng , and in this the ...
... turned out to see this grand procession , which ( it was just night - fall ) was lighted up with torches . A splendid scarlet - housed palanquin was , as usual on such occasions , carried in the centre of the throng , and in this the ...
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... turned out to be a grey quail , and the only one in the little swamp , so that its luck must have been very bad to have led it in the way of the low raking shot which I fired at the solitary snipe . At another halting - place ...
... turned out to be a grey quail , and the only one in the little swamp , so that its luck must have been very bad to have led it in the way of the low raking shot which I fired at the solitary snipe . At another halting - place ...
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