Category: Travel Writing
The Parsees, or Fire-Worshippers, of Bombay.--A Visit to a Fire-Priest and Astrologer.--His Astral Predictions.--The Gâthas. --Zoroaster.--His Life and Religion.--History of the Settlement of the Parsees in India 79
The Hindoo treatment of the sick is quite peculiar, and I once had an opportunity to witness some of its curious features during the illness of my Sanskrit teacher, the pundit G...
22. CHAPTER VIII.A Visit to the House of Baboo Ram Chunder.--His Wife.--Rajpoot Wrestlers.--Nautchnees, or Hindoo Ballet-Girls.--A Hindoo Drama.--Visit to a Nautchnees' School.--Bayahdiers, or D...
15. CHAPTER I.In that most delightful of all Indian months, the cool month of November, with the distant booming of a great gun that announced its arrival, the steamer from Aden came to ancho...
25. CHAPTER XI.From Satarah, the Star City of the great Mahratta Kings, to Dowlutabâd, the Abode of Fortune, and Aurungabâd, the Golden City of the Mohgul Emperors.--Tombs of Boorhan Ood Deen...
19. CHAPTER V.The Parsees, or Fire-Worshippers, of Bombay.--A Visit to a Fire-priest and Astrologer.--His Astral Predictions.--The Gâthas.--Zoroaster.--His Life and Religion.--History of the...
20. CHAPTER VI.Before we cross the private threshold with a view to take a peep at the domestic life of the Parsees it may be well to state that "Avesta," in one of its deepest significations,...
28. CHAPTER XIV.Calcutta, the City of the Black Venus, Kali.--The River Hoogley.--Cremation-Towers.--Chowringee, the Fashionable Suburb of Calcutta.--The Black Hole.--Battles of Plassey and Ass...
23. CHAPTER IX.From Bombay to Poonah, the capital of the Maha Rashtra, or the great Indian kings.--Campooly.--The Ascent of the Bhor Ghauts.[55]--Khandala.--Caves of Carlee or Karli.--"Puja Ch...
27. CHAPTER XIII.The Taptee River.--Surat and its Environs.--The Borahs and Kholees of Guzerat.--Baroda, the Capital of the Guicowars.--Fakeers, or Relic-Carriers, of Baroda.--Cambay.--Mount Abo...
26. CHAPTER XII.The Temples of Ellora, the Holy Place of the Deccan.--Nashik, the Land of the Râmâyanâ.--Sights and Scenes on the Banks of the Godaveri.--Damaun, the most famous of the Indo-Por...
17. CHAPTER III.Early one morning, after almost a week's preparation for the trip, we found ourselves in a large roomy bunder-boat flying before the wind straight for the beautiful island of Sa...
24. CHAPTER X.The beautiful Hindoo village of Wye.--The Mahabaleshwar Hills.--The Temple of the Gods.--The Couch of Krishna.--The Stone Image of the Cow from whose mouth the Five Rivers of th...
18. CHAPTER IV.Life in the East is altogether so novel, so full of dramatic sights and sounds, that one's curiosity seems to grow with the abundant nourishment it finds everywhere. Now one see...
16. CHAPTER II.My first stay in Bombay was a comparatively short one, and was spent partly with friends at Colabah and partly in tents on the great green in front of Fort George.
14. CHAPTER XIV.Calcutta, the City of the Black Venus, Kali.--The River Hoogley.--Cremation Towers.--Chowringee, the Fashionable Suburb of Calcutta.--The Black Hole.--Battles of Plassey and Ass...
10. CHAPTER X.The beautiful Hindoo Village of Wye.--The Mahabaleshwar Hills.--The Temple of the Gods.--The Couch of Krishna.--The Stone Image of the Cow from whose Mouth the Five Rivers of th...
9. CHAPTER IX.From Bombay to Poonah, the Capital of the Maha Rastra, or the great Indian Kings.--Campooly.--The Ascent of the Bhor Ghauts.--Khondala.--Caves of Carlee or Karli.--"Puja Chakra,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.A Visit to the House of Baboo Ram Chunder.--His Wife.--Rajpoot Wrestlers.--Nautchnees, or Hindoo Ballet-Girls.--A Hindoo Drama.--Visit to a Nautchnees' School.--Bayahdiers, or D...
11. CHAPTER XI.From Satarah, the Star City of the great Mahratta Kings, to Dowlutabâd, the Abode of Fortune, and Aurungabâd, the Golden City of the Mohgul Emperors.--Tombs of Boorhan Ood Deen...
12. CHAPTER XII.The Temples of Ellora, the Holy Place of the Deccan.--Nashik, the Land of the Râmâyanâ.--Sights and Scenes on the Banks of the Godaveri.--Damaun, the most famous of the Indo-Por...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The Taptee River.--Surat and its Environs.--The Borahs and Kholees of Guzerat.--Baroda, the Capital of the Guicowars.--Fakeers, or Relic-Carriers, of Baroda.--Cambay. --Mount Ab...
5. CHAPTER V.The Parsees, or Fire-Worshippers, of Bombay.--A Visit to a Fire-Priest and Astrologer.--His Astral Predictions.--The Gâthas. --Zoroaster.--His Life and Religion.--History of the...
7. CHAPTER VII.Hindoo Treatment of the Sick.--Pundit's House Defiled.--Its Purification.--Short Sketch of the Different Races and of the Origin of Castes and Creeds among the People of Hindost...
6. CHAPTER VI.3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.1. CHAPTER I.2. CHAPTER II.