... and paymaster to the forces and, as he will figure largely in the following pages, under the title of the Q.M.G., and comes, moreover, under the head ...
... its name. The Jhelum only remains - the ancient Hydaspes of Alexandrian notoriety. JUNE 11. - Reached Goojerat at five A.M. and enjoyed a few ...
... of Cashmere, and anxiety as to our having got all supplies, &c. which we required, as he had been appointed expressly for the purpose of looking ...
... they fed, a single false step in crossing would have sent one rolling down, without a chance of stopping, to be dashed to pieces at the bottom. In this ...
... ceremony. The troops we found drawn up in lines, forming the sides of a large square, and dressed in what his Highness Rumbeer Singh believes ...
... form the city of Cashmere in the year of grace 1860. Some of these houses, as one looks into the narrow lanes leading to the river and sees them in ...
... preparations by hiring twelve coolies, at thirteen shillings each per mensem, and a mate or head man to look after them. Increased our stock of ducks ...
... could clothe itself in English, the cause of this dilapidation was the state of wealth and ambition at which the Lamas had arrived, and the consequent ...
... in the production of an apple-dumpling for dinner. AUGUST 11. - Leaving Suspul, we ascended considerably to the village of Buzgo, another of ...
... were all the more terrible to the unfortunate pig-tails on that account. AUGUST 22. - Left for Egnemo, over our old ground, which, wanting ...
... decoration, or indeed any other, but they were not perhaps more unsuitable than many I have seen in more avowedly civilized temples of worship. AUGUST ...
... and wraps under our canvas, to keep out the soaking wet. The cold was very great, and everything gave token of coming winter, and testified to what ...
... at the summit, we began to descend a lovely pine-clad valley once more into veritable Cashmere, and, about four P.M. encamped in a forest-clearing, ...
... coaches until sunrise, when we set off for a stroll through the city. This we found the cleanest, if not the only clean, town we had seen since landing ...
... in consequence of the want of rain. The general topic, in fact, is now the failure of the rains, and consequent apprehensions of a famine throughout the ...
... a square place in the courtyard with pearls, and spread a seat of gold set with pearls, on which they caused Rukminee to sit, and anointed her with ...
... have also been found small pearls, gold buttons, rings, beads, pieces of clay and stone bearing impressions of figures, bits of bone, and teeth of ...
... dieu Padma pani,[41] et sur l'origine des six syllabes sacrees, Om mani padme houm. Ce dieu est appele en Sanscrit Avalokites' vara ou le maitre ...
... summer heats, though the more intelligent sort of men would hardly be persuaded, that as long as he kept his father, Chah-Jean (Shah Jehan), prisoner ...
... mentioned by Jehangeer in his journal as Tirnagh: -. The source of the river Bhet (Jhelum)[*] lies in a fountain in Cashmeer, named Tirnagh, which, ...