Journal of an English Officer in IndiaHurst and Blackett, 1858 - Всего страниц: 280 |
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... during the hot and rainy seasons , between June and November , and at a time when the force was exposed to many hardships , and latterly to the want of tents , the Author ventures to claim the indulgence of the reader , more vi PREFACE .
... during the hot and rainy seasons , between June and November , and at a time when the force was exposed to many hardships , and latterly to the want of tents , the Author ventures to claim the indulgence of the reader , more vi PREFACE .
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... is to forward such improve- ments , were only exposed to the scorch- ing , jolting , dust and glare , to to which their supineness has unnecessarily doomed us . JUNE 8th . We halted at Taldunga , having absolutely 8 JOURNAL OF AN.
... is to forward such improve- ments , were only exposed to the scorch- ing , jolting , dust and glare , to to which their supineness has unnecessarily doomed us . JUNE 8th . We halted at Taldunga , having absolutely 8 JOURNAL OF AN.
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... exposure ; a canvas covering being the only kind used as curtains for those detestable waggons . Here I parted from my kind fellow travellers , Domenichetti of the 8th , or King's Regiment , Pakenham and Ayton , 84th , as , overcome by ...
... exposure ; a canvas covering being the only kind used as curtains for those detestable waggons . Here I parted from my kind fellow travellers , Domenichetti of the 8th , or King's Regiment , Pakenham and Ayton , 84th , as , overcome by ...
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... exposure . The officer in charge would be spared a harassing duty , which , as a matter of course , would be both more correctly and efficiently performed by persons conversant with it , who should be posted at intervals along the road ...
... exposure . The officer in charge would be spared a harassing duty , which , as a matter of course , would be both more correctly and efficiently performed by persons conversant with it , who should be posted at intervals along the road ...
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... get a meal , and then after a fast of fourteen hours , during which time they marched and fought exposed to the fierce heat of an Indian summer , when in all cantonments troops are kept in their barracks , and forbidden ENGLISH OFFICER .
... get a meal , and then after a fast of fourteen hours , during which time they marched and fought exposed to the fierce heat of an Indian summer , when in all cantonments troops are kept in their barracks , and forbidden ENGLISH OFFICER .
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Стр. 16 - Tahiti, and other gems of the sea in that quarter, and from thence to Sydney, marching through the Murray Valley, and inspecting the Adelaide district: From Australia he dashed onward to Java, riding through the interior, and taking a general survey of Batavia, with a glance at Japan and the Japanese.