 | William Martin Harvard - India - 1823 - 546 pages
...a triangle. When the sun is vehement, they use them to shade themselves from the heat. All soldiers carry them ; for, besides the benefit of keeping them dry, in case it rain upon the march, those leaves make their tents to lie under in the night."* Strange as this account must appear to Europeans,... | |
 | William Martin Harvard - India - 1823 - 508 pages
...a triangle. When the sun is vehement, they use them to shade themselves from the heat. AH soldiers carry them; for, besides the benefit of keeping them dry, in case it rain upon the march, those leaves make their tents to lie under in the night."* Strange as this account must appear to Europeans,... | |
 | 1835 - 538 pages
...and thickets. When the sun is vehement they use them to shade themselves from the heat : all soldiers carry them ; for besides the benefit of keeping them dry, in case it should rain upon the march, these leaves miiku their tents to lie under in the night. d and very hard,... | |
 | sir George Barrow (bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 248 pages
...heads, as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets. "When the sun is vehement...hot they use them to shade themselves from the heat: soldiers all carry them, for, besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march,... | |
 | Sophy Moody - Palms - 1864 - 474 pages
...their heads as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets. When the sun is vehement...hot, they use them to shade themselves from the heat. Soldiers all carry them; for besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the inarch,... | |
 | Henry William Cave - Sri Lanka - 1900 - 504 pages
...their heads as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets. When the sun is vehement...hot they use them to shade themselves from the heat; soldiers all carry them, for besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march,... | |
 | Henry William Cave - Sri Lanka - 1900 - 508 pages
...their heads as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets. When the sun is vehement...hot they use them to shade themselves from the heat; soldiers all carry them, for besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march,... | |
 | Henry William Cave - Sri Lanka - 1901 - 510 pages
...their heads as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the boughs and thickets. When the sun is vehement...hot they use them to shade themselves from the heat ; soldiers all carry them, for besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march,... | |
 | American essays - 1878 - 838 pages
...their heads as they travel, with the peaked end foremost, which is convenient to make their way through the Boughs and Thickets. When the Sun is vehement...themselves from the heat. Souldiers all carry them; for beside the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march, these leaves make their Tent»... | |
 | American essays - 1878 - 836 pages
...convenient to make their way through the Boughs and Thicket?. When the Sun is vehement hot they u>e them to shade themselves from the heat. Souldiers all carry them; for beside the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the inarch, these leaves make their Tents... | |
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the Boughs and Thickets. When the Sun is vehement hot they use them to shade themselves from the heat. Souldiers all carry them ; for besides the benefit of keeping them dry in case it rain upon the march, these leaves make their Tents to 
