Modern India and the Indians: Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and EssaysTrübner and Company, 1879 - 365 страници |
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... hundred pages of additional matter . The chapter on the ' Villages and Rural Population of India ' and several other sections of the work are quite new . Most of the matter in the two Essays on the ' Progress of our Indian Empire ...
... hundred pages of additional matter . The chapter on the ' Villages and Rural Population of India ' and several other sections of the work are quite new . Most of the matter in the two Essays on the ' Progress of our Indian Empire ...
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... hundred miles inland . In four days and a half , or 108 hours from the moment of our passing the Needles , we were close to Gibraltar . The night was dark and squally , and great caution was needed . I was kept awake by the intermittent ...
... hundred miles inland . In four days and a half , or 108 hours from the moment of our passing the Needles , we were close to Gibraltar . The night was dark and squally , and great caution was needed . I was kept awake by the intermittent ...
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... hundreds of camels and a motley crowd of way - worn travellers - men , women , and children - were waiting to pass over close to our siding . It was a strange and in- teresting sight , which made us think of the going down of the ...
... hundreds of camels and a motley crowd of way - worn travellers - men , women , and children - were waiting to pass over close to our siding . It was a strange and in- teresting sight , which made us think of the going down of the ...
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... hundred steam dredging - machines were in constant operation , for the effective working of which a large number of men and boys with interdependent duties was indispensable . And yet , after all , notwithstanding one's admiration of ...
... hundred steam dredging - machines were in constant operation , for the effective working of which a large number of men and boys with interdependent duties was indispensable . And yet , after all , notwithstanding one's admiration of ...
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... hundred feet . The channel which separates it from the opposite point of Babel Mandeb , and through which we sailed , is only one mile wide ; but a channel of nearly eleven miles in width on the other side divides it from the African ...
... hundred feet . The channel which separates it from the opposite point of Babel Mandeb , and through which we sailed , is only one mile wide ; but a channel of nearly eleven miles in width on the other side divides it from the African ...
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