Through India and Burmah with Pen and Brush

By A. Hugh Fisher
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Length8h 34m

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Excerpt: "Down came the rain, sudden, heavy and terrible, seeming to quell even the sea's rage and whelming those defenceless hundreds of dark-skinned voyagers in new and more dreadful misery. Terrors were upon them, and in abject wretchedness and hopeless struggle men, women and children spread every strip of their belongings over their bodies and even used for shelter the very mats upon which they had been lying. What trouble a Hindoo will take to keep his body from the rain! Extremely cleanly and fond of unlimited ablutions he yet detests nothing so much as a wetting from the sky, and now, wholly at the mercy of the elements, do what they would, no human ingenuity availed to keep these wretched people dry. It was the season of the rice harvest, when {2} South India coolies swarm over to Burmah much as the peasantry of Mayo and Connemara used to crowd to England every summer. If anybody is really anxious to remember that there are paddy fields in Burmah he should cross the Bay of Bengal in December."

Audiobook details

GenreTravel, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1ILLUSTRATIONS
2CHAPTER I RANGOON
3CHAPTER II HIS HIGHNESS THE SAWBWA OF HSIPAW
4CHAPTER III UP THE IRRAWADDY TO BHAMO
5CHAPTER IV THE DEAD HEART OF A KINGDOM
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6CHAPTER V MANDALAY
7CHAPTER VI SOUTHERN INDIA, THE LAND OF HINDOO TEMPLES
8CHAPTER VII CALCUTTA
9CHAPTER VIII MY FIRST SIGHT OF THE HIMALAYAS
10CHAPTER IX BENARES
11CHAPTER X LUCKNOW
12CHAPTER XI CAWNPORE
13CHAPTER XII THE HOUSE OF DREAM
14CHAPTER XIII DELHI
15CHAPTER XIV DEHRA DUN AND LANDOUR
16CHAPTER XV AN EVENING OF GOLD
17CHAPTER XVI "GUARD YOUR SHOES"
18CHAPTER XVII "A GATE OF EMPIRE"
19CHAPTER XVIII THE CAPITAL OF THE PUNJAB
20CHAPTER XIX AT THE COURT OF HIS HIGHNESS THE RAJAH OF NABHA
21CHAPTER XX IN SIGHT OF AFGHANISTAN
22CHAPTER XXI RAJPUTANA
23CHAPTER XXII SIR PRATAP SINGH
24CHAPTER XXIII THE MOHARAM FESTIVAL.[1]
25CHAPTER XXIV RAKHYKASH[1]
26CHAPTER XXV POLITICAL

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