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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... then there are jamMas, with handles made of the camels sinews; sikkins, carried by Arabs; katars, affected by Pathans; the pesh-khats, worn by Eohillas, together with little villainous knives named bichwas, or "scorpions," and karolis, tiny implements of anger and hatred which you can hide in the palm of the hand; marus, wrought of black-bucks horn; and the savage pointed chura and crooked safdara. I had all these bloodthirsty elegancies explained to me in the palace of the Amir-i-Kabir, who owns a great collection of them, and who pressed upon my acceptance such a selection of death-dealing implements as 1 should have hesitated to carry through the country of my gentle Buddhist friends. In fact a volume might be written upon the varieties of deadly inventions to be seen in the Hyderabad bazaars. I have spoken of Golcondah and its great rock as being near the capital, and may mention that we had a memorable little dinner at this retreat of his Highness, the table being laid in the outer hall of a magnificent tomb of granite, erected to the memory of one of the Koolub Shah kings. The splendid monument had been unhappily whitewashed inside and out, but this could not spoil its stately proportions, its majestic vault, and grand outlook over the rugged hills. This same district, lighted up for our pleasant repast by the moon and the fire-flies, as well as by coloured lamps, was that which Marco Polo describes when he visited Queen Eudrama Devi in A.D. 1292. "There be certain lofty mountains in these parts, and when the rains-fall, which be very heavy, the waters come roaring down them in huge torrents.-When the rains are over, and the waters have ceased to flow, they search the beds of the torrents and find plenty of diamonds. In summer, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150069604 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150069600 |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 174 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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