'Up the Country': Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1866 - India |
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... live in the same house . ' It certainly is very odd how completely the suspicious old man seems to have conquered any feeling of jealousy , and it is entirely his own doing , against the wishes and plans of his prime ministers , and of ...
... live in the same house . ' It certainly is very odd how completely the suspicious old man seems to have conquered any feeling of jealousy , and it is entirely his own doing , against the wishes and plans of his prime ministers , and of ...
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... live without seeing a clergy- man , or a church till they forget all about them . Wednesday , Dec. 27 . Runjeet has been extremely curious about our Sundays and Christmas - days , and , ill as he was , sent for Mr. Y. to - day , to ...
... live without seeing a clergy- man , or a church till they forget all about them . Wednesday , Dec. 27 . Runjeet has been extremely curious about our Sundays and Christmas - days , and , ill as he was , sent for Mr. Y. to - day , to ...
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... live on anything they have not gained by plunder or force . They have occasionally set fire to whole villages , and Runjeet even cannot control them , so he has incorporated some of them with his guards , but they wear their own dark ...
... live on anything they have not gained by plunder or force . They have occasionally set fire to whole villages , and Runjeet even cannot control them , so he has incorporated some of them with his guards , but they wear their own dark ...
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... by that hor- rid attar they smear over their guests , and then we came away . I wish I could make out how these women fill up their lives . Heera Singh said they each had a little room of their own 30 UP THE COUNTRY .
... by that hor- rid attar they smear over their guests , and then we came away . I wish I could make out how these women fill up their lives . Heera Singh said they each had a little room of their own 30 UP THE COUNTRY .
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... , so that we were able to stop a day . This is a shocking country for robberies . It belongs to nobody in particular , and the inhabitants avowedly live by plunder . Last night they took two pittarrahs belonging to UP THE COUNTRY . 39.
... , so that we were able to stop a day . This is a shocking country for robberies . It belongs to nobody in particular , and the inhabitants avowedly live by plunder . Last night they took two pittarrahs belonging to UP THE COUNTRY . 39.
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