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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[ NOVEMBER, 1921
Soi shelá chhai patas tah pithas Soi shelá chhai utam desh Soi shelá chhai pheravanis gratas Shiv chhui krůth tai tsen upadesh. Idol is of stone, temple is of stone; Above (temple) and below (idol) are one; Which of them wilt thou worship. O foolish Pandit ? Cause thou the union of mind with soul. The same stone is in the road and in the pedestal : The same stone is the sacred place : The same stone is the turning mill; . Shiva is difficult to be attained, take a hint for guidance (from thy guru).
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
NOTES FROM OLD FACTORY RECORDS. not Above fiveteen that is capable of working. OL
them are dead about forty ani dayly die, for hee 24. Glasse = Hour.
that falls, it is hard for him to rise. All our serSloop James, 10th of May 1885.
vants are sick and doad, sad att this minuto not Honoured Sir, This to acquaint your Honour of A Cook to gett victualls ready for those that eitt on Sad misfortune, for standing off to sea we att the Companys Table, and guch have been our Chanoold) to meett with fresh galls [gales) and straites, that woo many times have fasted; the sick great Sea and making Saile for to keep Company ye neglected, some cry for Remedies, but none to be with the Rest of the fleet we aprung such a Leakehad; those that could Eat have none to cook them that we are forced to keep pumping glasses and Vietuslis, 800 that I may say, the one Dies for glasse (from hour to hour) which hath been the Hunger, and the other for Remedies, so that now Cause of our putting Back again and fetched as far we have not living Enough to bury the Dead, and as Annor [Onore, Hondvar) where we Ri[dd att) if one is sick the other will not watch, for hoe sayes an Anchor. I would desire to know your Honours better that one than two dies, soe that people dies further orders what we shall doe with the Vossell and noe notice Taken thereof. (Recorde of Port St. for what with & Carring (carrying) of sail and George, Letters to Fort St. George, 1884-85, III, 216, Ridding att an Anchor she will not bear up much 216.)
R.C.T. onger without further Remedy. I rent your
26. A Recommendation, Honours very Humble and Obedient Servant to Command, William Dixon. (Records of Fort St. 20 November 1685. Letter from Thomas L George: Letters to Fort St. George, 1884-85, III, 85.) Council of Hugly to William Guffori and Council at
R.C.T. Port St. George. Mr. Higginson wee can very ill
sparo, he being one of the most fittest men in India 25. A Wail from Bensoolen.
for the offio ho was in (and indeed any thing else). 28 September 1685. Letter from Benjamin Bloom He has discharged his place with faithfullness and and Council at York Port (Bencoolen, Sumatra) to with all diligence in A curious (ingenious) method William Gyfford and Council af Fort St. George. As your Honor &ca, will see by his workes : wee Wee shall now give your Honour &ca. An Account cannot say enough to his praise, but seeing it is your of our Woofullstate and Condition which God grant order, and his daire, Bongall not agreeing with his better. We are by sickness all become Uncapable constitution, he takes his passage towards you on of helping one Another, and of the great number of the Shrewsbury. Woe have promis'd him to signifio people that came over not abovo thirty men well all his care and pains to our Right Honblo. of them that Mr Ord left here, being Blacks and Masters and hope they will take into consideration whites about 200, he taking about twenty souldiers and give him Encouragement According to his and severall Black servants along with him. Of the deserts for what he has done here. (Records of English souldiers are dead here eleven; and of the Port St. George : Letters to Fort St. George, 1684-5 Portoqueeze not above four, of the Black workmen 'III, 234-236.)
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