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Title: Around the world in eighty days
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston : J. R. Osgood & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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his fertileterritory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpidstreams, mostly tributaries of the Godavery. Passepartout, on waking and looking out, could notrealize that he was actually crossing India in a railwaytrain. The locomotive, guided by an English engineerand fed with English coal, threw out its smoke upon cotton,coffee, nutmeg, clove, and pepper plantations, while thesteam curled in spirals around groups of palm-trees, inthe midst of which were seen picturesque bungalows,viharis (a sort of abandoned monasteries), and marvelloustemples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation ofIndian architecture. Then they came upon vast tractsextending to the horizon, with jungles inhabited by snakesand tigers, which fled at the noise of the train ; succeededby forests penetrated by the railway, and still haunted byelephants which, with pensive eyes, gazed at the train asit passed. The travellers crossed, beyond Malligaum, thefatal country so often stained with blood by the sectaries
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THE SMOKE TORMED INTO SPIEAL COLUMNS. (Page 70. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. /I of the goddess Kali. Not far off rose Ellora, with its grace-ful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of theferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of thedetached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam. It wasthereabouts that Feringhea, the Thuggee chief, king of thestranglers, held his sway. These ruffians, united by a secretbond, strangled victims of every age in honour of the god-dess Death, without ever shedding blood; there was aperiod when this part of the country could scarcely betravelled over without corpses being found in every direc-tion. The English Government has succeeded in greatlydiminishing these murders, though the Thuggees still exist,and pursue the exercise of their horrible rites. At half-past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor,where Passepartout was able to purchase some Indianslippers, ornamented with false pearls, in which, with evi-dent vanity, he proceeded to

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