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Page 131 - Circumference of shadow at noon, 1116 feet. Circumference of the several stems, in number fifty or sixty, 921 feet. Under this tree sat a naked Fakir, who had occupied that situation for twenty-five years ; but he did not continue there the whole year through, for his vow obliged him to lie during the four cold months up to his neck in the waters of the Ganges.
Page 280 - The men are allowed to marry as many wives as they please, or can afford, and to have half a dozen is not uncommon. Each of...
Page 201 - ... is usually, from motives of delicacy or friendship, left unpaid, and so long as that is the case, a relationship is understood to subsist between the two families, and the parents of the woman have a right to interfere on occasions of ill treatment: the husband is also liable to be fined for wounding her; with other limitations of absolute right.
Page 131 - ... from nearly the level of the plain on which they grew. This, in truth, appeared so striking a curiosity, that I have often repaired to the spot, to contemplate the singularity of it. How the seed, from which it is produced, happens to occupy stations seemingly so unnatural, is not easily determined. Some have imagined the berries carried thither by the wind, and others, with more appearance of truth, by the birds ; which, cleansing their bills where they light, or attempt to light, leave in those...
Page 283 - They do not eat human flefh, as a means of fatisfying the cravings of nature, owing to a deficiency of other food ; nor is it fought after as a glutonous delicacy, as it would feem among the New Zealanders.
Page 219 - Great pains is taken in the rearing and feeding; they are frequently handled, and accustomed to spar in public, in order to prevent any shyness. Contrary to our laws, the owner is allowed to take up and handle his cock during the battle, to clear his eye of a feather, or his mouth of blood. When a cock is killed, or runs, the other must have sufficient spirit and...
Page 33 - ... is liable to more violent agitation than nearer the poles, where their power is felt only by indirect communication. The equatorial parts of the earth performing their diurnal revolution with greater velocity than- the reft, a larger circle being defcribed in the fame time...
Page 25 - Goochie, a neighbouring river, south of the former, a large plain, seven miles long and half a mile broad, where there had been before only a narrow beach. The quantity of earth brought down on this occasion was so considerable that the hill upon which the...
Page 206 - In the mode of marriage by Ambel-anek, says Marsden, the father of a virgin makes a choice of some young man for her husband generally from an inferior family, which renounces all further right to, or interest in, him ; and he is taken into the house of his father-in-law, who kills a buffalo on the occasion, and receives twenty dollars from his son's relations. After this, the "buruk baik" nia (the good and bad of him) is invested in the wife's family.
Page 28 - The surf begins to assume its form at some distance from the place where it breaks, gradually accumulating as it moves forward, till it gains a height, in common, of fifteen to twenty feet,* when it overhangs at top, and falls, like a cascade, nearly perpendicular, involving itself as it descends.