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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... night , stopping occasionally to supply the engine with water or the passengers with coffee , and passing through a uniformly flat country , diver- sified with lakes , scantily peopled , and partly cultivated . At day - break we are ...
... night , stopping occasionally to supply the engine with water or the passengers with coffee , and passing through a uniformly flat country , diver- sified with lakes , scantily peopled , and partly cultivated . At day - break we are ...
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... night , and that in the day they cannot do anything else . But , what with the various amenities of life on a good passenger steamer , extending from music and chess to foils and a nautical recreation termed slinging the monkey , ' the ...
... night , and that in the day they cannot do anything else . But , what with the various amenities of life on a good passenger steamer , extending from music and chess to foils and a nautical recreation termed slinging the monkey , ' the ...
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... night under a punkah , we pay a visit early next morning to the Club , considered the best club in the East , and by 10 A.M. we are off again on the last stage of our voyage . Half an hour after starting we stop again to loosen some ...
... night under a punkah , we pay a visit early next morning to the Club , considered the best club in the East , and by 10 A.M. we are off again on the last stage of our voyage . Half an hour after starting we stop again to loosen some ...
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... this , we are soon driving in a ' buggy ' with our own kith and kin , and that night we are lying on a more roomy couch than a ship's berth , in the suburb of Ballygunge . • CHAPTER II . CALCUTTA . A hundred years ago.
... this , we are soon driving in a ' buggy ' with our own kith and kin , and that night we are lying on a more roomy couch than a ship's berth , in the suburb of Ballygunge . • CHAPTER II . CALCUTTA . A hundred years ago.
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... night in Calcutta tends to modify some , and confirm other , preconceived ideas of the place . Accustomed to imagine Calcutta as the hottest of hot places , we are agreeably suprised to find that our first evening there is cooler than ...
... night in Calcutta tends to modify some , and confirm other , preconceived ideas of the place . Accustomed to imagine Calcutta as the hottest of hot places , we are agreeably suprised to find that our first evening there is cooler than ...
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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."