The book Reminiscences of Life And Sport in Southern India was written by author Heber Drury Here you can read free online of Reminiscences of Life And Sport in Southern India book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Reminiscences of Life And Sport in Southern India a good or bad book?
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Nothing else could grow in such a wilderness. In fact the whole landscape is dreary enough, though the sense of utter isola- tion is broken by the background, where is seen the bold outline of the mountains reaching a height of some 5, 000 feet, the extremity of that line of ghauts, which stretch down the entire length of the Western coast, and end in a black precipitous rock about fifteen miles from the Cape. We had little inducement to stay here long. Curiosity more than aught else had brough...t us so far. So we set off again. I was well mounted, and preferred this mode of marching to any other, as it enabled me to 104 Life and Sport see the country through which I was passing, and which was all so new to me. There is a native legend accounting for the formation of the extensive coast line from Goa to Cape Comorin. In bygone ages the sea washed the foot of the mountain range which now lies several miles inland. The inhabitants who dwelt at the foot of these hills were all fishermen. It happened that there dwelt at a place called Gokurna near Goa a prophet renowned for his sanctity called Paroes Raman.
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