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animals Arabia Arctic Ocean bamboo boats Bokhara borders British buffalo camels canals capital carried Caspian Central Asia centre Ceylon chief port chief town China Chinese cinchona coloured cotton covered crops cultivated desert district East Eastern elephant Empire Euphrates exports feet fertile fish flows forests fruits Ghats goats green ground Gulf Haidarabad highlands hills Himalayas Hindu Hindu Kush Hwang-ho important India indigo inhabitants irrigation islands Japan Kirghiz lake Lake Baikal land LESSON lofty Lord Curzon Malay millet mosque mountains Nanga Parbat narrow native navigable Northern opium Pamir passes Peking Persia plains plants plateau population PRODUCTS railway region rice river road Russian salt sheep Siberia side silk soil southern square miles steppes stream streets sugar tablelands thousand Tian-shan Tibet tobacco trade trees tribes Turkistan valleys vegetation villages walls Western wheat wild winter Yakutsk yellow Yellow Sea Yenisei
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Page 141 - The soil in these regions is consequently light and unremunerative, but the plentiful moisture arising from the interception of every passing vapour from the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal, added to the intense warmth of the atmosphere, combine to force a vegetation so rich and luxuriant, that imagination can picture nothing more wondrous and charming ; every level spot is enamelled with verdure, forests of never-fading bloom cover mountain and valley ; flowers of the brightest hues grow in profusion...
Page 142 - Selecting," says Sir Emerson Tennent, " an angular recess where two hills converge, the Kandyans construct a series of terraces, raised stage above stage, and retiring as they ascend along the slope of the acclivity, up which they are carried as high as the soil extends. Each terrace is furnished with a low ledge in front, behind which the requisite depth of water is retained during the germination of the seed, and what is superfluous is permitted to trickle down to the one below it. In order to...
Page 140 - Coromandel, or the adventurer from Europe recently inured to the sands of Egypt and the scorched headlands of Arabia, is alike entranced by the vision of beauty which expands before him as the island rises from the sea, its lofty mountains covered by luxuriant forests, and its shores, till they meet the ripple of the waves, bright with the foliage of perpetual spring.
Page 203 - ... them, you will almost die with laughter when you call one from the stand where the little machines are ranged like fairy hansom cabs, and start for your first ride. With a hat on his shaggy head like a white washing-basin, with a red or blue blanket over his shoulders, his little legs tightly encased in black cloth drawers, his feet thrust into straw sandals, his name and number gaily painted on his back,
Page 78 - Bokhara, and cast his eyes around, he shall not see any thing but beautiful and luxuriant verdure on every side of the country; so that he would imagine the green of the earth and the azure of the heavens were united; and as there are green fields in every quarter, so there are villas interspersed among the green fields.
Page 205 - If you do you will see all sorts and conditions of men — and women, too — amicably tubbing together, and will be yourself invited to disrobe and sit in a tub, which will scald you, if not heedful, for the Japanese take their baths at nearly the temperature which boils an egg. And the little shops, and the little goods, and the little, funny, impossible articles bought and sold; and the little, placid, pleasant folk laughing and trotting about the ways; and the little trees growing in every nook,...
Page 141 - India"; the Chinese knew it as the " island of jewels"; the Greeks as " the land of the hyacinth and the ruby " ; the Mahometans, in the intensity of their delight, assigned it to the exiled parents of mankind, as a new elysium to console them for the loss of Paradise ; and the early navigators of Europe, as they returned dazzled with its gems, and laden with its costly spices, propagated the fable that far...
Page 203 - ... does not give himself the trouble of much illustrious delay, the fare will only be 20 sen. Condescend to make gracious use of this worthless servant!" Then the children. Playful Children. Japan is evidently a Paradise for babies and boys and girls. The babies are one and all slung upon the back in a deep fold of the kimono. There they sleep, eat, drink, and wobble their little shaven pates to and fro, with jolly little beaming visages, and fat brown hands and arms.
Page 192 - ... washbowl, and fills it. Taking with his fingers a chunk of butter from a sheep's paunch filled with it, which has also been set before them, he lets it melt in his bowl, drinking some of the tea and blowing the melted butter to one side; and then adds a handful of tsamba from the small ornamented bag in which it is kept. He deftly works with his right hand the tea, butter, and tsamba into a ball of brown dough which he eats, drinking as much tea as is necessary to wash down the sodden lump.
Page 205 - ... too — amicably tubbing together, and will be yourself invited to disrobe and sit in a tub, which will scald you, if not heedful, for the Japanese take their baths at nearly the temperature which boils an egg. And the little shops, and the little goods, and the little, funny, impossible articles bought and sold; and the little, placid, pleasant folk laughing and trotting about the ways; and the little trees growing in every nook, and the little absurd cakes and little morsels of food, and little...