Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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... fire and flame are performed on the mortal re- mains of many a Hindoo , and it is curious to see the crowds of huge birds of prey assembled at this spot . Great vultures , suffering from repletion , and in a state of after - dinner coma ...
... fire and flame are performed on the mortal re- mains of many a Hindoo , and it is curious to see the crowds of huge birds of prey assembled at this spot . Great vultures , suffering from repletion , and in a state of after - dinner coma ...
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... fire , round which are gathered the bullock - drivers , and jemadars , and other niggers , and which dazzles your eyes and throws a strange , bewildering light on surround- ing objects , making the bullocks , who are passing to and fro ...
... fire , round which are gathered the bullock - drivers , and jemadars , and other niggers , and which dazzles your eyes and throws a strange , bewildering light on surround- ing objects , making the bullocks , who are passing to and fro ...
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... fire of dry sticks under a fleshy part of his thigh ( a plan for which I think we are indebted to " Galton's Art of Travel " ) as he lay recumbent and inexorable , a sort of living heraldic device of contumacy couchant , and when he was ...
... fire of dry sticks under a fleshy part of his thigh ( a plan for which I think we are indebted to " Galton's Art of Travel " ) as he lay recumbent and inexorable , a sort of living heraldic device of contumacy couchant , and when he was ...
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... when the match which self - devotion had prepared to fire the magazine , and so blow the fort and all within it 66 * Now commanding the Ferozepore Regiment of Sikhs . up into the air , sooner than that treachery should.
... when the match which self - devotion had prepared to fire the magazine , and so blow the fort and all within it 66 * Now commanding the Ferozepore Regiment of Sikhs . up into the air , sooner than that treachery should.
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... Fire extinguished ; officials decline to take any precautions for avoiding a recurrence of the same , refuse to burn ... fire ; jolt along for half an hour - fresh alarm - heads out of window - train on fire again - the men seen crawling ...
... Fire extinguished ; officials decline to take any precautions for avoiding a recurrence of the same , refuse to burn ... fire ; jolt along for half an hour - fresh alarm - heads out of window - train on fire again - the men seen crawling ...
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1st Bengal Fusiliers Allahabad appearance arrived baggage Bagh bank Bareilly beautiful behold Bengal Bheesties body bright buildings bullets BULLOCK-TRAIN bullocks Calcutta camels camp capture case-shot cavalry Cawnpore cheer cheroots column dark death Delhi desperate doolies dust elephants endeavour enemy English excitement eyes fact fcap fcap 8vo feeling fight fire force Fyzabad glittering Goomtee guns hands heat Hindoo HISTORY horse artillery India infantry Iron Bridge Kaiserbagh legs look Lucknow Maun Singh miles minarets morning mutiny native Nawab-gunge night noise occasion officers once one's Oude Outram palace palanquin Pandy pariah dogs passed picket pleasant post 8vo rain reader regiment Rifle river round Royal Artillery Royal Welsh Fusiliers scene seemed Sepoys shot side Sikhs Sir Colin soldiers sort streets syces tents trees troops tulwar village walls weary whole wounded wretched
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Página 197 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
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