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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER I
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In what mode it was taken no one can tell me.

The Deotas armed themselves with his bones, attacked the Giants forthwith, and gained an easy and complete victory.

The wisdom of the orders of drowsy old Brimha, in this case, is as little questioned by the Hindoos of the present day as that of the orders of drunken old Jupiter was in the case of Troy, by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Millions, "wise in their generation," have spent their lives in the reverence of both.
There is hardly any sin that the waters of these dirty little ponds are not supposed to be capable of washing away; and, over and above this, they are supposed to improve all the good, and reduce to order all the bad passions and emotions of those who bathe in them, by propitiating the aid of the deity, and those who have influence over him.
A good deal of the land, distant from villages, lies waste, though capable of good tillage; and from the all pervading cause, the want of confidence in the Government and its officers, and of any feeling of security to life, property, and industry.

Should this cause be removed, the whole surface of the country would become the beautiful garden which the parts well cultivated and peopled now are.

It is all well studded with fine trees--single and in clusters and groves.


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