Scenes and Thoughts in Foreign Lands
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ISBN13: 9780217869799
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: are, doubtless, for the most part, tributes of affection; but one scarcely admires so indiscriminate a panegyric as seems here to be applied to every body. Calcutta, Aug. 1843. Famine. Great fears have lately been entertained for the rice-crops, owing to the usual rains not having fallen, but these are now allayed by heavy showers within the last few days having occurred. This morning I had a conversation with an old intelligent Indian about famine. He recollected one, that happened at Calcutta many years ago. I begged him to sit down and tell me all he could remember of it. I listened intently to his description of this dread calamity. The old man shuddered, and I shuddered too, at the distressing scenes he depicted. The people, with starving hunger in their countenances, begged; rupees (2s. coins) were often thrown to them; the poor creatures threw them back, demanding rice: alas rice was not to be had, and death stalked frightfully around May heaven ever keep us from such a dire condition. Calcutta, Sept. 1843. Hindoo Compliment to Romanism. The princely Baboo Dwarkanauth Tagore exhibited to us the handsome painting (Madonna and Child) presented to him by Pope Gregory the Sixteenth. There is an anecdote current, that he was askedwhere he intended to send a son or nephew for an English education? and he said, to Eton. On being told that sundry Christian tenets would be indispensably necessary ere he could go to that seminary, he replied, that he had been to Rome, and that he did not see any great difference between the ceremonies there and Hindooism, so that he saw no insuperable objection to a Christian school. This may account in some measure for the greater facility Romanists have in proselytizing the half-cast population; and it is a stronger...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217869799 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217869793 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 242 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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