Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial and Scientific: Products of the Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures, Band 1Edward Balfour Printed at the Scottish & Adelphi presses, 1871 |
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Acacia Afghan Afghanistan Africa amongst ancient apud ARAB Archipelago Arian Arracan Asia Assam Bactria bamboo bark BENG birds Blyth Bombay British BURM Burmah Burmese called Ceylon China coast colour common in India cultivated district dynasty east Eastern feet flowers fruit Genus Gmelin Gould's Century Greek grows hills Himalaya HIND Hindoo hindu Hodgson Horsfield inches India India in Long Indus Inhabits Europe Inhabits Himalaya Inhabits India Inhabits Malayan peninsula Inscriptions islands J. A. S. XIV Java Jerdon Kabul king Latham Linn Madras mahomedans Malabar Malay countries Malayan peninsula MALEAL miles mountains native Nepal northern O'Shaughnessy Persian plant Punjab race Rajasthan river root Roxb seeds Sindh species Subfam Sumatra Swainson Sylhet Temminck Tenasserim Tenasserim provinces town in India tree tribes valley Vieillot Vishnu Voigt wood Zool
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Seite 352 - For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables.
Seite 315 - Cut into splints and slivers of various sizes, the wood is worked into baskets and trays of every form and fancy, twisted into cables, plaited into awnings, and woven into mats for scenery of the theatre, the roofs of boats and the casing of goods. The shavings, even, are picked into oakum, and mixed with those of rattan, to be stuffed into mattresses. The bamboo furnishes the bed for sleeping and the...
Seite 12 - And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him : and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
Seite 373 - ... the Bhoura is compelled to take a more extensive range, and in the scarcity of food, during the short summer, to be less select in regard to its quality. The peasantry of Kashmir are unacquainted with the employment of honey as the basis of a fermented liquor, but eat it raw, or mixed with various articles of common food, whilst the most wealthy substitute it for sugar in preserving fruits. It is customary to take the hive every year, and the end of September, or beginning of October, is found...
Seite 536 - In one place the caves are only to be approached by a perpendicular descent of many hundred feet by ladders of bamboo and rattan, over a sea rolling violently against the rocks. When the mouth of the cavern is attained, the perilous office of taking the nests must often be performed by torchlight, by penetrating into the recesses of the rock, where the slightest trip would be instantly fatal to the adventurers, who see nothing below them but the...
Seite 456 - And what have ye found in the monarch's dome, Since last ye traversed the blue sea's foam ?— " We have found a change, we have found a pall, And a gloom o'ershadowing the banquet's hall, And a mark on the floor as of life-drops spilt— Nought looks the same, save the nest we built!
Seite 55 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Seite 456 - Nought looks the same, save the nest we made!" Sad is your tale of the beautiful earth, Birds that o'ersweep it in power and mirth ! Yet through the wastes of the trackless air Ye have a guide, and shall we despair? Ye over desert and deep have pass'd — So may we reach our bright home at last ! THE GRAVES OF A HOUSEHOLD.
Seite 288 - He was the reaper of the harvest of battle : I followed his steps as the humble gleaner of his sword. On the gory bed of honour he spread a carpet of the slain ; a barbarian " prince his pillow, he laid him down and sleeps surrounded by the foe.
Seite 373 - ... to resent the aggression, or to enter the room. Having placed the straw upon the charcoal, and holding the dish close to the mouth of the hive, he blew the smoke strongly against the combs, but removed the straw the instant it took fire, to prevent it burning the bees, and quenched the flame before he employed it again. Almost stifled by the smoke, the bees hurried through the outer door with such rapidity that the hive was cleared of its inhabitants within a few minutes ; when the farmer, introducing...