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Scinde; or the Unhappy Valley

1851

What a pungent pregnant little satire upon civilisation and Christianity! The unprejudiced author of it certainly deserved to be avatared at Benares or to be shrined in effigy over the gateway of Juggunnath ! The distinction one may safely draw between the people of the West and those of the East in matters of morale is this : among the former there are excetions—many in the North in the [...] polite bendings of the body and we eschew the vulgarity of converting ourselves as the Persians say into Hammam chimneys.* After a few puffs I wipe the mouth-piece with the right hand the servant raises the top in which the tobacco is blows down the tube so as to expel any of the smoke that may linger about the water and then carries' it round to the members of the assembly that occupy the f [...] Listen to an account of the sufferings endured by a party of seapoys marching in the heat of the day through Upper Scinde by the pen of a late traveller :— " A detachment of the — regiment of N. I. escorting treasure from Shikarpore were passing the desert in the -night when they mistook the way and wandered the greater part of the next day in search of the track without meeting with any wa [...] It is divided by the broad deep and dry bed of the Fulailee River and is bounded on the left by the high wall of the hunting preserve still loopholed as it was by the Belochies and on the left by Meeanee the little fishing village * to which capricious Fate hath given a name in the annals of the East. [...] It was to use a hackneyed phrase the tail of the Affghan storm " and most disastrous had that storm been to the lives and prperty of our countrymen to the exchequer of the country and most of all to the confidence of our conquests.
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Pages
313
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.146301
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Frontmatter
iii-vi Richard Burton view
Chapter XV. Lectures and Preachments
1-27 Richard Burton view
Chapter XVI. We Prepare to quit Hyderabad
28-41 Richard Burton view
Chapter XVII. Reflections on the Field of Meeanee
42-77 Richard Burton view
Chapter XVIII. Down the Fulailee River to Sudderan’s Column. The Stepmother
78-107 Richard Burton view
Chapter XIX. A Ride to Meer Ibrahim Khan Talpur’s Village
108-130 Richard Burton view
Chapter XX. Meer Ibrahim Khan Talpur
131-156 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXI. A Beloch Dinner and tea Party
157-182 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXII. The Mimosa Bank; its Giant Face.—Scindia. Petræa.—the Beloch Muse
183-205 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXIII. The Lukkee Pass and its Evil Spirit.—Sehwan its Beggars and its “Alexander’s Camp.”
206-230 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXIV. Lake Manchar.—Larkhana the Pretty and Mahtab the Donna of Larkhana
231-247 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXV. The Picturesque “Sukkur Bukxur Rohri.”
248-264 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXVI. Shikarpur.—its Central Asian Bazaar and its Hindoos
265-277 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXVII. Upper Scinde.—Durranee Heroism of Sentiment
278-287 Richard Burton view
Chapter XXVIII. The Song of the Bungalow.—Down the Indus “Home.”
288-309 Richard Burton view

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