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Page xiii
... Street architecture . Minah and other birds in towns . Kindness to animals . Little children and their pigeons . A word on cleanliness . An idle hour at Friths . Bad speculations . George the Fourth's bedstead . Native Bazaars , and ...
... Street architecture . Minah and other birds in towns . Kindness to animals . Little children and their pigeons . A word on cleanliness . An idle hour at Friths . Bad speculations . George the Fourth's bedstead . Native Bazaars , and ...
Page xvii
... , & c . Her Our CHAPTER XI . Arabian and White Jews . Bombay Jews , are they true Israelites ? My opposite neighbours . Stolen peeps across the street . C ยท 240 PAGE . spend their time . My Scene changes . CONTENTS . xvii.
... , & c . Her Our CHAPTER XI . Arabian and White Jews . Bombay Jews , are they true Israelites ? My opposite neighbours . Stolen peeps across the street . C ยท 240 PAGE . spend their time . My Scene changes . CONTENTS . xvii.
Page 43
... Street mer- chants would , in due time , take counsel together to turn the trade of Hindostan into a new channel , and to deprive the Venetians , the Genoese , and finally the Portuguese , of all the golden harvest they had been so long ...
... Street mer- chants would , in due time , take counsel together to turn the trade of Hindostan into a new channel , and to deprive the Venetians , the Genoese , and finally the Portuguese , of all the golden harvest they had been so long ...
Page 45
... streets are constantly thronged by crowds from all quarters of the globe . The strange costumes , and odd looking people you are constantly meeting , puzzle you amazingly , before you can find out who they are , or before you can ...
... streets are constantly thronged by crowds from all quarters of the globe . The strange costumes , and odd looking people you are constantly meeting , puzzle you amazingly , before you can find out who they are , or before you can ...
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... streets may be traversed , from one extremity to another , without meeting a human being , or any other signs of former population , than pavements overgrown with grass ; gardens and court - yards choked with under- wood ; and princely ...
... streets may be traversed , from one extremity to another , without meeting a human being , or any other signs of former population , than pavements overgrown with grass ; gardens and court - yards choked with under- wood ; and princely ...
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