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[Illustration: THE TAJ MAHAL FROM THE RIVER.]


LIFE AND TRAVEL IN INDIA


BEING RECOLLECTIONS OF A JOURNEY
BEFORE THE DAYS OF RAILROADS


BY

ANNA HARRIETTE LEONOWENS

_Author of "Siam and the Siamese"_


_ILLUSTRATED_


PHILADELPHIA
HENRY T. COATES & CO.
1897


Copyright, 1884,
BY PORTER & COATES.


THIS LITTLE VOLUME OF TRAVELS

Is Inscribed to

MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM W. JUSTICE,

IN

GRATEFUL APPRECIATION OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP,

BY

THE AUTHOR.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.
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The Island of Bambâ Dèvi.--Sights and Scenes round about Bombay      7


CHAPTER II.

Malabar Hill, and