Coorg Memoirs: An Account of Coorg and of the Coorg MissionPrinted at the Wesleyan Mission Press, 1855 - 222페이지 |
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... Indian names . As the Badaga people on the Nílagiri ( Neilgherries ) have been named Burghers , so Kodagu has been angli- cized into Coorg ; when and by whom I am unable to tell . The Western ghatts gradually rise to the Southward ...
... Indian names . As the Badaga people on the Nílagiri ( Neilgherries ) have been named Burghers , so Kodagu has been angli- cized into Coorg ; when and by whom I am unable to tell . The Western ghatts gradually rise to the Southward ...
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... India , I believe . But nowhere have I seen them in such astonishing abundance and brilliancy as in Coorg . A thunder - storm , succeeded by a rich shower , has closed a sultry day . The sun has set unobserved . The Western sky is ...
... India , I believe . But nowhere have I seen them in such astonishing abundance and brilliancy as in Coorg . A thunder - storm , succeeded by a rich shower , has closed a sultry day . The sun has set unobserved . The Western sky is ...
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... India is the most unhealthy season of the year , has no danger to health in Coorg . ) The account which natives of Mysore or from the Western Coast give of the climate of Coorg is much more unfavourable . They have ex perience on their ...
... India is the most unhealthy season of the year , has no danger to health in Coorg . ) The account which natives of Mysore or from the Western Coast give of the climate of Coorg is much more unfavourable . They have ex perience on their ...
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... Indian Ocean . Coorg has , of course , no large river . Even the Kávéri has neither breadth nor depth during the dry seasons . Still they have generally an abundant and constant supply of water . Their sources being high up in the ...
... Indian Ocean . Coorg has , of course , no large river . Even the Kávéri has neither breadth nor depth during the dry seasons . Still they have generally an abundant and constant supply of water . Their sources being high up in the ...
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... India is presented to them as a free gift by their great champion Parashuráma , after the defeat and the destruction of the rival Kshatrias . All the principal rivers have to take their origin in some way or other from Brahmanical ...
... India is presented to them as a free gift by their great champion Parashuráma , after the defeat and the destruction of the rival Kshatrias . All the principal rivers have to take their origin in some way or other from Brahmanical ...
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Agastya Almanda Amma ancient appeared army arrived Aruva Basava begged Bhagamandala Bhagavati Bombay Brahmans British brother Cannanore Capt Captain Mahoney Cardamoms carried Casamaijor Chandravarma Channa Cole Company Company's COORG MISSION Coorg Rajahs daughter death despatched Devammaji Devan districts Dodda Vírappa English feet festival force Fraserpett friends ghatts Government Governor Halery hands Heggala Holeyas holy honor Huttari Hyder Hyder Ali Ikkéri India Ingledew jungle Kadar Khan Kaliyuga Kávéri Kóte letter Lingaraja live Lord Cornwallis Madras Malabar Malayalam Mangalore marriage ment Mercara monsoon months morning Muddaya murdered Musulmans Mysore Nalkanadu Náyaka ordered pagodas palace Parjulla Khan party peace Periapatna possession Rajah of Coorg Rani received rice Rishi river Robert Abercromby rupees seized sent Seringapatam Sir Robert Sir Robert Abercromby Sode Rajah Stephanas Sultan Tellicherry Tippu Tippu Sultan took tree troops Tulu village Vira Viraraja Virarajendra Virarajendrapett Vodea whole wife
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201 페이지 - The conduct of the Rajah of Coorg has, for a long time past, been of such a nature as to render him unworthy of the friendship and protection of the British Government. Unmindful of his duty as a ruler, and regardless of his obligations as a dependent ally of the East India Company, he has been guilty of the greatest oppression and cruelty towards the people subject to his government, and he has evinced the most wanton disrespect of the authority of, and the most hostile disposition towards the former,...
66 페이지 - ... the field, as the occasion may require. Into this! one of the magicians descends. He sits down in Hindu fashion, muttering mantras. Pieces of wood are laid across the pit, and covered with earth a foot or two deep. Upon this platform a fire of jackwood is kindled, into which butter, sugar, different kinds of grain, etc., are thrown. This sacrifice continues all night, the Panika sacrificer above, and his immured colleague below, repeating their incantations all the while. In the morning the pit...
202 페이지 - ... individual was deputed, but upon the established rules of all civilized nations, by whom the persons of accredited agents are invariably held sacred. The ancient alliance and the firm friendship, which had so happily subsisted between the predecessors of the present Rajah and the Honorable Company, have caused his errors to be treated uniformly with indulgence.
115 페이지 - Rajah, the Company's treasury is richer at this moment no less than six lacs of Rupees, than it would have been, if he had taken payment of the money expended and for the supplies furnished by him. In this view of the question, I do not take into consideration the nature of his services or the time at which they were rendered, but I have stated particularly, what the supplies, furnished by him, would have cost the Company, if they had been furnished by any other person, as I found thereon the amount...
53 페이지 - Urukd1u, the villagestick-dance, collects the whole community. The women of two or three houses repair together to the Urumandu, a pair leading and a second pair following, all four beating cymbals and chanting ancient songs or impromptu verses. When they have arrived at the place of meeting, they sit down in groups with the children, and look at the dances performed by the men, who go through the evolutions of Coorg saltation, beating small rattans, of which they carry one in each hand, while they...
174 페이지 - M., and torchlight had succeeded the daylight in his courtyard; we took aim out of the window, at various things, and hit them, and I even knocked down a lime, a species of small lemon, off the top of a cocoanut, so uncommonly true did it carry. His son and several relations were next introduced to us, all fine looking boys; and the heir apparent, being about seven or eight years old, dressed in a General's uniform, with a sword by his side, put me in mind of some old French prints, in which the...
206 페이지 - Whereas it is the unanimous wish of the inhabitants of Coorg to be taken under the protection of the British Government, His Excellency the Right...
30 페이지 - Uxores habent deni duodenique inter se communes, et maxime fratres cum fratribus parentesque cum liberis ; sed, si qui sunt ex his nati, eorum habentur liberi, quo primum virgo quaeque deducta est.
46 페이지 - Huttari. And it appears, that the people can do very well without them. Six days before the chief festival of tasting the new rice, all the males from six to sixty years, assemble on one of the Mandus of the Grama, after sunset. Mandu is the name of the open public place in which business is transacted or festive games carried on.
3 페이지 - A thunder storm, succeeded by a rich shower, has closed a sultry day. The sun has set unobserved. The western sky is overhung with clouds. In the cloudless east, the full moon rises slowly. The air perfectly pellucid, the stars glittering in fresh glory; not a breath of wind; all still. You turn from the broad red orb of the rising moon to the host of golden stars on the deep azure, from them to the massive banks of clouds, lit up here by faint lightnings, there by the pale beams of the moon their...