Round the World in 1870: An Account of a Brief Tour Made Through India, China, Japan, California, and South AmericaH. S. King & Company, 1872 - 408 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة viii
... Horses - Dak Discomforts - Deyra Doon - Up from the Plains- Mussoorie - Hill Coolies - The Simla Road - The Jumna Gorge- Lukwali - Back to Calcutta CHAPTER IX . PENANG AND SINGAPORE . The Bay of Bengal - Penang - Singapore - Chinese ...
... Horses - Dak Discomforts - Deyra Doon - Up from the Plains- Mussoorie - Hill Coolies - The Simla Road - The Jumna Gorge- Lukwali - Back to Calcutta CHAPTER IX . PENANG AND SINGAPORE . The Bay of Bengal - Penang - Singapore - Chinese ...
الصفحة xi
... Horse - racing on the Pampas - The Gaucho - Espartillares - Pampa Diet - The Gentleman turned Sheep - farmer - The Pampas - Pampa Horses - A ' Puesto ' - Sheep - farming - Its Pros and Cons ' 350 CHAPTER XXX . UP COUNTRY . The Parana de ...
... Horse - racing on the Pampas - The Gaucho - Espartillares - Pampa Diet - The Gentleman turned Sheep - farmer - The Pampas - Pampa Horses - A ' Puesto ' - Sheep - farming - Its Pros and Cons ' 350 CHAPTER XXX . UP COUNTRY . The Parana de ...
الصفحة 21
... we go to the Peoples ' Park , where Europeans , half - castes , and natives , are driving listlessly round a gravel path , and trying to shake off the languor induced by the labour and heat of the day . Neither horses nor drivers look.
... we go to the Peoples ' Park , where Europeans , half - castes , and natives , are driving listlessly round a gravel path , and trying to shake off the languor induced by the labour and heat of the day . Neither horses nor drivers look.
الصفحة 22
... horses nor drivers look very lively ; but this a Calcutta companion declares is only what was to be expected in what he is pleased to call the Benighted Presidency . Happily for him , he has in Calcutta a cold season to refresh his ...
... horses nor drivers look very lively ; but this a Calcutta companion declares is only what was to be expected in what he is pleased to call the Benighted Presidency . Happily for him , he has in Calcutta a cold season to refresh his ...
الصفحة 33
... horse can be bought for rather less than he would fetch in England , and can be kept at two - thirds of what he would cost in an English livery - stable . With regard to the lot of an English lady in Calcutta , perhaps we are not ...
... horse can be bought for rather less than he would fetch in England , and can be kept at two - thirds of what he would cost in an English livery - stable . With regard to the lot of an English lady in Calcutta , perhaps we are not ...
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Banda Oriental bank beautiful broad Buenos Ayres buildings Calcutta Callao Canton Cape Pillar Cawnpore China Chinese coast colour coolies Cordova course distance English estancia European feet flat foot foreign garden gauchos gharry green half handsome Hankow harbour height hills Himalayas Hongkong horses houses hundred island Japan Japanese kind Kobé land leave look Lucknow mid-day miles Monte Video morning mountains Mussoorie native nearly neighbouring night Ningpo Osaca palkees Pampas pass Penang picturesque plain port Punta Arenas quarter railway reach ride ridge rise river road rock round running San Francisco scarcely scene seems Shanghae sheep Shogun shops side Sierra sight slopes stands steamer stone Strait stream streets summit surrounded tea-houses temple Tocaido town traveller trees Uruguay valley Valparaiso vessel village voyage walk walls wind wood yards Yedo Yokohama
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الصفحة 207 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
الصفحة 13 - Stood on my feet. About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these, Creatures that lived and moved, and walk'd or flew, Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smiled ; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
الصفحة 89 - Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles, Like those Hesperian gardens fam'd of old, Fortunate fields, and groves, and flowery vales, Thrice happy isles...
الصفحة 176 - O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us!
الصفحة 151 - It is said of man morally, that the whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint — that from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, there is no soundness in him.
الصفحة 275 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
الصفحة 51 - Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty. May the Lord have mercy on his soul.
الصفحة 231 - Access denied ; and over-head up-grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene ; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
الصفحة 117 - Former customers have inspired caution, — no credit given." "A small stream always flowing."