An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and Its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India: Comprising a View of the Afghaun Nation, and a History of the Dooraunee Monarchy, Part 1,Volum 2Richard Bentley, 1839 |
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Pàgina 383 - Java. The king's women and female relations walk out with a profusion of jessamines in their hair, so that the whole head is whitened, and the neck covered with them...
Pàgina 18 - Agriculturae non student; majorque pars victus eoruin in lacte, caseo, carne consistit: neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios, sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum, qui una coierint, quantum et quo loco visum est, agri, attribuunt atque anno post alio transire cogunt.
Pàgina 294 - Do you sleep ; I will take care that no harm befalls you ; ' and to say the truth, his orders were obeyed like destiny, no man daring to hesitate or delay one moment in executing them."* * Casi Rai.
Pàgina 377 - Dagun ; but they also worship numerous idols, which they say represent great men of former days, who intercede with God in favour of their worshippers. These idols are of stone or wood, and always represent men or women, sometimes mounted and sometimes on foot. Moollah Nujeeb had an opportunity of learning the arts which obtain an entrance to the Kaffir Pantheon. In the public apartment of the village of...
Pàgina 294 - The cup is now full to the brim, and cannot hold another drop. If anything can be done, do it or else answer me plainly at once : hereafter there will be no time for writing nor speaking.
Pàgina 241 - After the goods are completed, the merchant carries them to the custom-office, where each shawl is stamped, and he pays a certain duty, the amount of which is settled according to the quality and value of the piece. The officer of the government generally fixes the value beyond what the goods are really worth. The duty is at the rate of one-fifth of the price. Most shawls are exported unwashed, and fresh from the loom.
Pàgina 209 - are often handsome. ... It is universally agreed that they are by no means remarkable for chastity; but I have heard different accounts of their libertinism. In the northeast, which is the most civilized part of the country, the women would prostitute themselves for money, while their husbands were out of the way. ... In other parts of the country there prevails a custom called Kooroo Bistaun, by which the husband lends his wife to the embraces of his guests. This," he adds in a note, " is Moghul:...
Pàgina 131 - Chaursoo ; it is surrounded with shop*, and may be considered as the public market-place; it is there that proclamations are made, and that the bodies of criminals are exposed to the view of the populace. Part of the adjoining bazar is also covered in, as is usual in Persia, and in the west of the Afghaun dominions. The four bazars are each about fifty yards broad ; the sides consist of shops of the same size and plan, in front of which runs an uniform veranda for the whole length of the street....
Pàgina 133 - Candahar are very crowded from noon till evening, and all the various trades that have been described at Peshawer, are also carried on there, except that of water-sellers, which is here unnecessary, as there are reservoirs every where, furnished with leathern buckets, fitted to handles of wood or horn, for people to draw water with. Ballad-singers and story-tellers are also numerous in the bazars, and all articles from the west are in much greater plenty and perfection than at Peshawer.
Pàgina 241 - ... pattern in hand, or one with which they are not familiar, he describes to them the figures, colours, and threads which they are to use, while he keeps before him the pattern on which they happen to be employed, drawn upon paper. During the operation of making, the rough side of the shawl is uppermost on the frame, notwithstanding which, the Oostaud never mistakes the regularity of the most figured patterns. The wages of the Oostaud (the...