Burmah, its people and natural productions1860 |
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66 coup abundant Amherst appears Aracan bamboo bazars beetles belonging Bengal Bghai bird Blyth brown Buch Budhist bulboul Burmah Burmese Burmese call CAPRICORN BEETLE Capt cat-fish Chinese coast colour common cultivated Cuvier dorsal dorsal fin elephant elytra English European feet fish flowers forests fragrant fruit gamboge gardens gecko genus Gmelin Gould Gray green head Hodgson Horsfield inches India indigenous indusium insect Irrawaddy Jerdon jungles king language Latham Linn M'Clelland Major Berdmore Martaban Maulmain McClell Mergui Mergui Archipelago mountains natives nearly numerous Pali Pegu plant produces Prome Pugan Rangoon Red Karen remarkable resembling river roots Roxb Salwen Sanskrit says seen sent Sgau Shan shell Shwaygyen snake sometimes species specimens spots Subfam Systomus tail Talaing Tavoy Temm Temminck Tenasserim Provinces thousand timber Toungoo tree tribe Vieillot village Wall Wight wild wood word yellow
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Strona 625 - Territories,'1' and also as to the best practicable mode of providing for the performance of the same. Council have the honor to report for the information of His Excellency the Governor General in Council.
Strona 427 - Come on ! Yet pause! behold us now Beneath the bamboo's arched bough, Where, gemming oft that sacred gloom, Glows the geranium's scarlet bloom,* And winds our path through many a bower Of fragrant tree and giant flower; The ceiba's crimson pomp display'd O'er the broad plantain's humbler shade, And dusk anana's prickly blade ; While o'er the brake, so wild and fair, The betel waves his crest in air.
Strona vii - It inhabits, by choice, the crannies of half- rotten trees, as well as humid places. It is sometimes met with in houses, where it occasions great alarm, and where every exertion is used to destroy it speedily. Bontius states that its bite is so venomous, that if the part bitten be not cut away or burned, death ensues in a few hours.
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Strona 76 - ... morally.' Again, the elders said : ' Children and grandchildren, if you are enticed towards that which is black, follow not ; if you are enticed towards that which is red, follow not They are not the words and commands of your God. Before the word of your God returns to you, many will come, saying they are your God ; but they are not your God. Look towards the ocean. The great bird shall ascend and spread forth its white wings. That is the white foreigners, bringing you the words of your great...