 | Sir James Penn Boucaut - 1905 - 298 pages
...SUNDRY ENCOMIUMS ON THE ARAB TAKEN AT RANDOM, AND INSTANCES OF THE LOVE OF THE ARAB BY GREAT SOLDIERS BISHOP HEBER, in his ' Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India,' says : ' My horse is a nice quiet, good-tempered little Arab, who is so fearless that he goes without... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...Scotland, xlviii. 312, — this notion, if erroneous, powerfully corrected by the picture exh,hited by Bishop Heber in his Narrative of a Journey through the upper provinces of India, 313. Bissachere, M. de la, Expose Statistique du I'M ik in, de la Cochinchine, du Cam boge, du Tsiampa,... | |
 | 1900 - 662 pages
...Archdeacon Hare, Landor himself says that Mr. Charles Wyndham recommended ' Gebir ' to the Hebers. Bishop Heber, in his 'Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India,' says that some of the ruins he saw reminded him of Landor's description of the Egyptian " Masar." Those... | |
 | 1892 - 834 pages
...and I should not notice him were it not that he is quoted by a celebrated medical writer. The bishop in his narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India gives the following striking picture of the influence of malaria in that part of the world: " I asked... | |
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With regard to their language, most of the words are of Indian origin. They are found, in part, with little variation, in the Sanscrit... 
