Sketches of India: written by an officer [J.M. Sherer].

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Page 297 - A TREATISE on the RECORDS of the CREATION, and on the MORAL ATTRIBUTES of the CREATOR.
Page 6 - ... here fibrous and pliant, there strong and columnar, supporting its giant arms, and forming around the parent stem a grove of beauty ; and among these wonders, birds, all strange in plumage and in note, save the parroquet, (at home, the lady's petbird in a gilded cage), here spreading his bright green wings in happy fearless flight, and giving his natural and untaught scream.
Page 167 - I remained, there was a constant succession of worshippers ; for, except on festivals, they visit their temples at any hour they please or find convenient. This temple is dedicated to Mahadeva; and has several altars, with lingams of large size and beautiful black marble. It has two fine statues of the bull of Siva couchant; and, small as the temple was, three or four Brahminy bulls were walking about in it, stopping in the most inconvenient places. All the floor was one slop, from the water used...
Page 214 - ... looked down on the chiefs under us, and saw that they eyed us most haughtily, which very much increased the effect they would otherwise have produced. They were armed with lance, scymitar, and shield, creese and pistol ; wore, some shawls, some tissues, some plain muslin, or cotton ; were all much wrapped in clothing, and wore, almost all, a large fold of muslin, tied over the...

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