From Pall Mall to the Punjaub: Or, With the Prince in IndiaChatto and Windus, 1876 - 398 стор. |
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11th Hussars admirable appearance arches arms arrived artillery band Baroda beauty blue Bombay Byculla Calcutta carpet carriage Cashmere cavalry centre Ceylon cheetah close Colonel coloured crowd daïs dance decorated Delhi delight dress elephants English European eyes face fashion feet front garden gentleman gold golden grand Guicowar guns Gwalior hand head hills Hindoo honour horses howdah huge hundred Hussars India Jeypore Jummoo jungle Kandy kind ladies length light look Lord Lord Alfred Paget Lord Charles Beresford Madras Maharajah miles minutes Mohammedan Mysore native neck night once palace Parsee party passed play pleasant present priests Prince of Wales Prince's puggaree Rajah road round Royal Highness sacred salute scarcely scene Scindia seats seen side sight silver soldiers spectacle stand stone stood sword temple thousands tiger tom-tom trees troops turban Veddah Viceroy waiting walls wonderful yards
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Сторінка 335 - Wales entered it with greater ease than Gwalior or even Jummoo. And now no more appropriate name could be given to the capital of the Maharajah than that of the Paris of India. They say that Jey Singh was an enlightened man — that he was filled with an idea that even narrow streets on the top of a mountain were not so healthy as wide thoroughfares on a plain, especially when that stands at an elevation of fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea ; that large houses well ventilated, and a...
Сторінка 234 - I here invest you with the honourable insignia of the Star of India, of which most exalted Order her Majesty has been graciously pleased to appoint you to be a Knight Grand Commander,' places the chain round the bent neck of the recipient without himself rising from the throne.
Сторінка 101 - Facing the door, and with its back turned to a large window from which a magnificent view of the surrounding country can be obtained...
Сторінка 73 - Is without doubt a lovely city. High up among the hills, some three thousand feet above the level of the sea, though actually on a wide plain or expanse of table-land, it is refreshed by brisk breezes, which greatly, temper the heat of the sun. If the days are sultry the evenings are cool : even when the sun is highest there is shade under the wide-spreading trees which fill its gardens and overhang its roads. Its houses — I refer, of course, to those occupied by Europeans — are half-hidden by...