 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 592 pages
...present year also there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhin and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries...the direst extremity. Life was offered for a loaf, 8 but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand... | |
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...present year also" there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhin and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries...the direst extremity. Life was offered for a loaf, 1 but none would buy ; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand... | |
 | Prithwis Chandra Ray - Famines - 1901 - 126 pages
...fighting for blood at the slaughter-house.'¿ Of the great famine of. i66i, Muhammad Amin Razwiny writes: “Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy;...was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed... | |
 | Charles W. McMinn - Famines - 1902 - 148 pages
...bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhan and Guzerat. Life was offered for a loaf, but nonç would buy, rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it, the ever bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food. For a long time dog's flesh was sold for... | |
 | William Foster - East Indies - 1910 - 492 pages
...Indian writer, the author of the Badshdhnama (Elliot and Dowson's History of India, vol. vii, p. 24): ' Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy; rank...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever-bounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food; and the feet which had always trodden the... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - Great Britain - 1911 - 304 pages
...to China. local remembrance. Of the one that took place in 1630 a contemporary historian wrote : ' Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy; rank...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the ever bounteous hand was now stretched out for food. For long dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh,... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 608 pages
...present year also there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhan and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it ; the everbounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food ; and the feet which had always trodden the... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 644 pages
...Mund he viM A,i there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhan and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries...to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the everbounteous hand was now stretched out to beg for food; and the feet which had always trodden the... | |
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and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries were reduced to the direst extremity. Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy; rank was to be sold for a cake, but none cared for it; the 
