The Calcutta Review, Volume 8University of Calcutta., 1847 - India |
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... Observations on the climate of New Zealand , by Wil- liam Swainson , Esq . London , 1840 6. New Zealand and the New Zealanders . By Ernest Dieffenbach , M. D. , Naturalist to the New Zealand Company . London , 1841 7. Scheme of the ...
... Observations on the climate of New Zealand , by Wil- liam Swainson , Esq . London , 1840 6. New Zealand and the New Zealanders . By Ernest Dieffenbach , M. D. , Naturalist to the New Zealand Company . London , 1841 7. Scheme of the ...
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... observation and experiment , and prosecuted , it might be , for years , with unrelaxed and untiring energy . Impressed , at length , with such views and sentiments , or views and sentiments somewhat akin to these , and in order to pave ...
... observation and experiment , and prosecuted , it might be , for years , with unrelaxed and untiring energy . Impressed , at length , with such views and sentiments , or views and sentiments somewhat akin to these , and in order to pave ...
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... observed , with a view to his being turned to account as an instrument in future measures towards the Khonds ; but he appeared of little promise , growing up in seclusion and in ignorance ; the Brahman teachers who have been procured ...
... observed , with a view to his being turned to account as an instrument in future measures towards the Khonds ; but he appeared of little promise , growing up in seclusion and in ignorance ; the Brahman teachers who have been procured ...
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... observed by it to a great extent . Human sacrifices are still performed , according to universal belief , in Bustar , and in Jeypore , and in the adjoining Zemindaries to the West and the South to the Godavery , and they are certainly ...
... observed by it to a great extent . Human sacrifices are still performed , according to universal belief , in Bustar , and in Jeypore , and in the adjoining Zemindaries to the West and the South to the Godavery , and they are certainly ...
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... observed , their somewhat contradictory fears from such an act ; first , and chiefly , lest the wrath of their ... observation and experience than one might at first suppose , may appear from the following passage C believed that ...
... observed , their somewhat contradictory fears from such an act ; first , and chiefly , lest the wrath of their ... observation and experience than one might at first suppose , may appear from the following passage C believed that ...
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