Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, volume 2

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Author

Parlby, Fanny Parkes, 1794-1875

Title

Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, Volume 2 (of 2) : During four-and-twenty years in the east; with revelations of life in the zenāna

Original Publication

London: Pelham Richardson, 1850.

Credits

ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia

Subject

Colonial administrators' spouses -- India -- Diaries

Category

Text

eBook-No.

74043

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74043

Release Date

July 15, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.CONTENTS TO VOL. II.
3. 3.LIST OF PLATES TO VOL. II.
4. 4.WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM. — CHAPTER XXXIX. THE MAHRATTA CAMP AND ZENĀNA. — SUPERSTITIONS OF THE NATIVES.
5. 5.CHAPTER XL. THE NAWAB HAKĪM MENHDĪ, AND CITY OF KANNOUJ.
6. 6.CHAPTER XLI. THE MAHRATTA CAMP AND SCENES IN THE ZENĀNA.
7. 7.CHAPTER XLII. THE MAHRATTAS AT ALLAHABAD.
8. 8.CHAPTER XLIII. TŪFĀNS IN THE EAST.
9. 9.CHAPTER XLIV. THE SPRING-BOW.
10. 10.CHAPTER XLV. THE RUINS OF GAUR.
11. 11.CHAPTER XLVI. SKETCHES IN BENGAL—THE SUNDERBANDS.
12. 12.CHAPTER XLVII. RADHA KRISHNŬ—SPORTING IN ASSAM. — KRISHNŬ OR KANIYĀ. — GOPALŬ. — GOPĪ NAT’HŬ. — RADHA KRISHN. — SPORTING IN ASSAM. — TIGER HUNTING ON FOOT. — THE BĀGHMARS.
13. 13.CHAPTER XLVIII. THE FAMINE AT KANAUJ. — ANCIENT HINDŪ RUIN.
14. 14.CHAPTER XLIX. THE HINDŪ TRIAD. — BRŬMHŬ. — BRAHMA, THE CREATOR. — VISHNŬ, THE PRESERVER. — SHIVŬ, THE DESTROYER. — THE TEN AVATARS. — 1. MACH, MACHCHHA, OR THE FISH. — 2. KURMA, OR THE TORTOISE. — 3. BARĀH OR VARĀHA, THE BOAR. — 4. NARA-SINGHA, OR THE MAN-LION. — 5. VAMANA, OR THE DWARF. — 6. PARASHU-RĀMA. — 7. RĀMA-CHANDRA. — 8. BALA-RĀMA. — 9. BUDDHA. — 10. KALKĪ, OR THE HORSE. — THE DESCENT OF VISHNŬ AS KRISHNA. — KAMA-DEVA, THE GOD OF LOVE. — JAGANA’TH, OR JAGANAT’HA. — SHIVŬ, THE DESTROYER. — MAHADÉO, OR MAHĀ-DEVA. — GANESH. — KARTIKEYA. — LACHHMĪ. — SARASWATĪ. — DŪRGA. — THE PURĀNAS. — THE VEDAS.
15. 15.CHAPTER L. PLEASANT DAYS IN CAMP.
16. 16.CHAPTER LI. RUINS OF DELHI. — MAUSOLEUM OF HUMAIOON. — KOTĪLA OF FEROZE SHĀH. — MASJID OF ROSHAN-OOL-DOWLA. — THE KUTAB MINĀR. — KUTAB KÍ LĀT.
17. 17.CHAPTER LII. ANCIENT DELHI—THE ZENĀNA GHĀR. — THE OBSERVATORY. — THE ZENĀNA. — THE JĀMA MASJID.
18. 18.CHAPTER LIII. DEPARTURE FOR THE HILLS.—LANDOWR.
19. 19.CHAPTER LIV. PICTURESQUE SCENES IN THE HILLS. — VIEW FROM THE PILGRIM’S BANGLĀ.
20. 20.CHAPTER LV. LIFE IN THE HILLS. — THE KHARĪTĀ
21. 21.CHAPTER LVI. ELEVATION OF THE HIMALAYA. — THE GREAT PEAK OF BHADRINĀTH. — KEDARNĀTH. — GANGOUTRĪ — JUMNOTRĪ.
22. 22.CHAPTER LVII. DEPARTURE FROM THE HILLS.
23. 23.CHAPTER LVIII. DEPARTURE FROM ALLAHABAD—THE THREE WISHES.
24. 24.CHAPTER LIX. ARRIVAL IN CALCUTTA—THE “MADAGASCAR.”
25. 25.CHAPTER LX. DEPARTURE FROM ST. HELENA. — INDIAN NEWS.
26. 26.CHAPTER LXI. VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
27. 27.CHAPTER LXII. RESIDENCE AT CAPE TOWN. — THE BUSHWOMAN.
28. 28.CHAPTER LXIII. SCENES AT THE CAPE.—THE TEMPLE OF JAGANĀTH. — A KAFIR WARRIOR. — THE SOUTHERN CROSS. — THE TEMPLE OF JAGANĀTH. — JAGANĀTH.
29. 29.CHAPTER LXIV. SKETCHES ON THE RIVER FROM CALCUTTA TO COLGONG.
30. 30.CHAPTER LXV. SKETCHES ON THE GANGES FROM COLGONG TO DINAPŪR.
31. 31.CHAPTER LXVI. SKETCHES ON THE GANGES FROM DINAPŪR TO BENARES. — THREE SATĪS AND A MANDAP NEAR GHAZIPŪR. — FUNERAL RITES.—BURNING THE DEAD.
32. 32.CHAPTER LXVII. SKETCHES ON THE GANGES FROM BENARES TO BINDACHUN. — THE SNAKE-CHARMERS.
33. 33.CHAPTER LXVIII. SKETCHES ON THE RIVER FROM BINDACHUN TO ALLAHABAD. — THE TEMPLE OF BHAWĀNĪ. — NATIVE SUGAR MILLS.
34. 34.CHAPTER LXIX. RESIDENCE AT PRĀG, AND RETURN TO CALCUTTA.
35. 35.CHAPTER LXX. SKETCHES AT SEA.
36. 36.CHAPTER LXXI. SKETCHES AT SEA—MOUNTAINS OF AFRICA—THE FAREWELL. — WATERSPOUTS. — PICO.
37. 37.THE FAREWELL.
38. 38.FOOTNOTES
39. 39.APPENDIX. — No. I.— Copy of the inscription in the church of Tanworth, Warwickshire. — Vol. i. p. 58. — No. II.— To freeze ice cream in an English freezing pail, enough for a large party. — No. III.— Strawberry or raspberry ice cream. — No. IV.— Freezing mixture. — No. V.— To freeze two quarts of strawberry cream in a native kulfī. — Nos. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X.—See G. A. Jarrin’s Italian Confectioner, pp. 123-133. Also p. 229, for colouring ice with cochineal , i.e. kirmīz i farangī. — No. XI.— To lacquer boxes. — Vol. i. p. 113. — No. XII.— Karand patthar, corundum stone, or adamantine spar. — Vol. i. p. 114. — No. XIII.— Indian method of washing the hair. — Vol. i. p. 136. — No. XIV.—Take seven gelās (seed of mimosa scandens), break and put the kernels into a chhattak of water for a night; pound them, and strain through muslin; add the juice of four or five limes, and the yolks of two or three eggs; wash the hair with the mixture. — No. XV.— Ink for taking impressions off Hindūstanī seals. — Vol. i. p. 142. — No. XVI.— To recover the ink of faded writing. — Vol. i. pp. 175, 176. — No. XVII.— Vol. i. p. 114. — No. XVIII.— Treatment of cholera. — Vol. i. p. 203. — No. XIX.— To prepare skeleton peepul leaves. — Vol. i. p. 218. — No. XX.— To copy drawings with talk —i.e. talc.— Vol. i. p. 219. — No. XXI.— To take off the impression from leaves and flowers. — Vol. i. p. 219. — No. XXII.— To arrange a turban. — Vol. i. p. 234. — No. XXIII.— The Coles, the Bheels, the Gonds, the Khonds, &c. — Vol. i. p. 236. — No. XXIV.— Bengal coins. — Vol. i. p. 273. — No. XXV.— Easy method of preserving small birds. — Vol. i. p. 289. — No. XXVI.— Antiseptic paste. — No. XXVII.— Arsenical soap. — Vol. i. p. 289. — No. XXVIII.— Dye for the moustache. — Vol. i. p. 319. — No. XXIX.— To dye the beard and moustache. — Vol. i. p. 320. — No. XXX.— Perfumed tobacco cakes. — Vol. ii. p. 8. — No. XXXI.— Authorities quoted in the Work. — Vol. ii. p. 181. — No. XXXII.— Extracts from “The History of Delhie, and adjacent Ruins;” a manuscript, by Colonel Franklin. — Vol. ii. p. 222. — No. XXXIII.— Vol. ii. p. 311. — No. XXXIV.— Vol. ii. p. 333.
40. 40.INDEX.

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