| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...contentment walked about only in search of sustenance. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. * * * The Emperor in his gracious kindness and bounty directed the officials of Burhanpiir, Ahmadabad,... | |
| Charles W. McMinn - Famines - 1902 - 148 pages
...flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions on the roads. Those lands which had been famous for their fertility...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. The Emperor . in his gracious kindness directed the officials of Burhanpur, Ahmedabad and Surat, to... | |
| Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1907 - 442 pages
...each other and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The multitude of those who died blocked the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. The emperor, in his gracious kindness and bounty, directed the officials of Burhanpur, Ahmadabad, and... | |
| Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 608 pages
...contentment walked about only in search of sustenance. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness — The Emperor in his gracious kindness and bounty directed the officials of Burhanpur, Ahmadabad,... | |
| Sir Theodore Morison - Famines - 1916 - 270 pages
...the feet which had always trodden the way of contentment walked about only in search of sustenance. For a long time dogs' flesh was sold for goats' flesh,...distributed every Monday. Large revenue remissions were also made."1 The blunt English sailor, Peter Mundy, who travelled from Surat to Agra and back while this... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions on the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.' i It is impossible to reconcile the measurement and cost of the peacock throne as stated by Tavernier... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...the dying caused obstructions on the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did not terminate jn death and who retained the power to move wandered...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.' The details of the horrible picture are set out even more fuDy in the plain, unadorned notes kept by... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1928 - 866 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions on the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.' 1 It is impossible to reconcile the measurement and cost of the peacock throne as stated by Tavemier... | |
| India - 1924 - 988 pages
...began to devour each other. And the flesh of a son was preferred to his love Those lands which had once been famous for their fertility and plenty, now retained no trace of production.' Peter Mundy in the account of his travels makes frequent mention of this famine. In one... | |
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