The Calcutta Journal of Medicine: A Monthly Record of the Medical Auxiliary Sciences, Volume 25, Issue 5Amrita Lal Sircar 1906 |
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Page 176 - went one time with his ordinary guard of soldiers to see a young widow act that tragical catastrophe, but he was so smitten with the widow's beauty that he sent his guards to take her by force from her executioners, and conducted her to his own lodgings. They lived lovingly many years and had several children.
Page 178 - Governor's house, in the fort, is the best and most regular piece of architecture that I ever saw in India.
Page 177 - ... the town was built without order, as the builders thought most convenient for their own affairs, every one taking in what ground best pleased them for gardening, so that in roost houses you must pass through a garden into the house, the English building near the river's side, and the natives within land.
Page 176 - December when the floods are dissipated, those fishes are left dry, and with their putrefaction affect the air with thick stinking vapours, which the north-east winds bring with them to Fort William, that they cause a yearly mortality.
Page 179 - ... in the fields, or to gardens, or by water in their budgeroes, which is a convenient boat that goes swiftly with the force of oars. On the river, sometimes, there is the diversion of fishing, or fowling, or both ; and before night they make friendly visits to one another, when pride or contention do not spoil society, which too often they do among the ladies as discord and faction do among men.
Page 176 - English, some military, some servants to the Company, some private merchants residing in the town, and some seamen belonging to shipping lying at the town, and before the beginning of January there were four hundred and fifty burials registered in the clerk's book of mortality.
Page 176 - The. country about being overspread with Paganism, the custom of wives burning with their deceased husbands, is also practised here. Before the Mogul's war, Mr. Channock went one time with his ordinary guard of soldiers, to see a young widow act that tragical catastrophe ; but he was so smitten with the widow's beauty, that he sent his guards to take her by force from her executioners, find conducted her to his own lodgings.
Page 176 - Hughly, and for the sake of a large shady tree chose that place, tho' he could not have chosen a more unhealthful place on all the River ; for three miles to the North Eastward is a saltwater lake that overflows in September and October and then prodigious numbers of fish resort thither, but in November and December, when the floods are dissipated these fishes are left dry and with their putrefaction affect the air with thick stinking vapours, which the North-East Winds bring with them to Fort William,...
Page 178 - Yet he was very shy in taking bribes, referring those honest folks, who trafficked that way, to the discretion of his wife and daughter, to make the best bargain they could about the sum to be paid, and to pay the money into their bands.
Page 174 - ... to boats at anchor, and carried men out of them ; yet among the Pagans, the Island Sagor is accounted holy, and great numbers of Jougies go yearly thither in the months of November and December, to worship and wash in salt-water, though many of them fall sacrifices to the hungry tigers.