A Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years Service Amongst the Wild Tribes of Khondistan for the Suppression of Human Sacrifice, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1864 - 320 pagina's |
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A Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years Service Amongst the Wild ..., Volume 1 Sir John Campbell Volledige weergave - 1864 |
A Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years Service Amongst the Wild ..., Volume 1 Sir John Campbell Volledige weergave - 1864 |
A Personal Narrative of Thirteen Years Service Amongst the Wild ..., Volume 1 Sir John Campbell Volledige weergave - 1864 |
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abundant amongst ancient authority barbarous Bengal Berhampore Bissoi Bissum Cuttack Boad Boad and Goomsur Brahmin Bundari camp Captain Frye Captain Macviccar ceremonies CHAPTER Chinna Kimedy cloth cultivated Cuttack deity districts endeavoured European evil favour flesh forest gneiss Godairy Goomsur Goomsur and Boad Governor-General of India hill tracts hill tribes Hindoo human sacrifice human victims hundred infanticidal tribes influence inhabitants Jeypore JULIA KAVANAGH jungle Kalahundy Khond chiefs Khond country Khond hills Khond language KHONDISTAN labours land laterite lives low country Mahanuddy Mahasingi Maji Maliahs matchlock ment Meriah rite Meriah sacrifice MERIAHS RESCUED Moota mountains narrative native neighbouring never offering officer Ooryah chiefs Orissa Panoo Patna Patur plains pledge possession practice produced Rajah rescued Meriah victims rice Ryabiji sacrificing sandstone season Singh Sooradah success superstition suppression Talcheer temples tiger tion Tooamool troops turmeric Ungool villages vols W. T. Blanford wild tribes women
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Pagina 44 - ... in an ample covering of scarlet cloth ; he was surrounded by twenty or thirty young fellows, and by them protected from the desperate attacks made upon him by a party of young women. On seeking an explanation of this novel scene, I was told that the man had just been married, and his precious burden was his blooming bride, whom he was conveying to his own village.
Pagina 54 - After which they address the victim. " We " bought you with a price and did not seize you. Now we sacrifice "you according to custom, and no sin rests on us.
Pagina 212 - Manicksoro, who will immediately eat you, so be not grieved at our slaying you. Your parents were aware, when we purchased you from them for sixty rupees, that we did so with intent to sacrifice you. There is, therefore, no sin on our heads, but on your parents. After you are dead, ~we shall perform your obsequies.