The Happy Valley: Sketches of Kashmir & the KashmirisS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879 - 300 pagina's |
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Pagina 278 - Singh acknowledges the supremacy of the British Government, and will, in token of such supremacy, present annually to the British Government one horse, twelve perfect shawl goats of approved breed (six male, and six female), and three pairs of Kashmir shawls.
Pagina 276 - MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, GOVERNOR-GENERAL, appointed by the HONOURABLE COMPANY to direct and control all their affairs in the EAST INDIES, and by MAHARAJAH GULAB SING in person— 1846.
Pagina 277 - Singh engages never to take, or retain in his service any British subject, nor the subject of any European or American State, without the consent of the British Government. "Article...
Pagina 1 - ... it at their greatest speed, in order to escape from the pursuit of an eagle. The formation of the hill is of trap, and a beautiful amygdaloid is found on its summit, which juts out in every direction through the grass and wild rose-bushes. The Kashmirians say, that roses and almonds thrive there. Softness, mantling over the sublime — snugness, generally elsewhere incompatible with extent — are the prevailing characteristics of the scenery of Kashmir ; and verdure and the forest appear to...
Pagina 154 - When thus detached from the soil they are pressed into somewhat closer contact, and formed into beds of about two yards in breadth, and of an indefinite length. The heads of the sedges, reeds, and other plants of the float, are now cut off, and laid upon its surface, and covered with a thin coat of mud, which, at first intercepted in its descent, gradually sinks into the mass of matted roots. The bed floats, but is kept in its place by a stake of willow driven through it at each end, which admits...
Pagina 145 - ... minutes, and then taken into the canal, by a man standing in the water ; one end is gathered up in his hand, and the shawl swung round and beaten with great force upon a flat stone, being dipped into the canal between every three or four strokes. This occupies about five minutes. They are then dried in the shade, as the hot sun spoils the colours ; and in ten days afterwards the coloured shawls undergo a similar process, but occupying less time. The white ones, after being submitted to the process,...
Pagina 276 - Singh, and the heirs male of his body, all the hilly or mountainous country, with its dependencies, situated to the eastward of the river Indus, and westward of the river...
Pagina 277 - Singh will refer to the arbitration of the British Government any disputes or questions that may arise between himself and the government of Lahore, or any other neighbouring state, and will abide by the decision of the British Government.
Pagina 278 - Esquire, and Brevet-Major Henry Montgomery Lawrence, acting under the directions of the Right Honourable Sir Henry Hardinge, GCB, GovernorGeneral on the part of the British Government, and by Maharajah...