[Gold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore by Robert H. Elliot]@TWC D-Link bookGold, Sport, And Coffee Planting In Mysore CHAPTER II 28/28
Presently I was aroused by the rumble of the carriage, and, collecting my party, returned to the bungalow for luncheon.
At about half past four the carriage was brought round, and we drove to our temporary home to dinner, and on the following day reached Bangalore at two o'clock, the whole trip having thus occupied about sixty hours. FOOTNOTES: [4] No less than 291.53 inches fell this year, between April and the last day of September, at a Cardamom plantation on the crests of the Ghauts. [5] After the fall of Seringapatam some further military operations were necessary in Manjarabad, and some of Colonel Wellesley's letters were written within a few miles of my bungalow. [6] So called from its flowing from a source which was supposed to have been formed by a stroke of Rama's arrow. [7] All travellers are obliged to record their names in these books, and state the time they have stayed, and the sums they have paid for the use of the bungalow. [8] "Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency," vol.xv.Kanara, Bombay.
Printed at the Government Central Press, 1883. [9] The native idea. [10] "Eastern Experiences," by L.Bowring, C.S.I.; Henry S.King and Co., London, 1871.
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