Beecham's empire air tour : a commentary of interest to the whole family / Beechams Pills Ltd.

  • Beechams Pills Ltd.
Date:
[1930?]
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Credit: Beecham's empire air tour : a commentary of interest to the whole family / Beechams Pills Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    > = | EAVING _ Karachi, ; we proceed to Jodhpur where we spend the This is the chance of natives of night. party's first Sly studying the ! India at close quarters, and they are extremely interested in the numerous types. they see, and worn. in the various capital of India. From Delhi, our route lies in a south- easterly direction, following the great plain of the Ganges. “This area over which we are passing,” Mr. Jackson explains to the children, “ produces a very large quantity of wheat, and also a lot of cotton is grown here.” __ Passing over Cawnpore, a spot made famous by the Indian Mutiny, we soon reach Allahabad, a name conferred on this sacred spot by Akbar the Great. Allahabad means.“* The Abode of Allah.” At this spot the two sacred rivers Ganges and Jumna unite, and so Allahabad thas been, from time immemorial, of great religious significance, being the scene of a yearly Hindu Festival. The children notice a change in the character of the landscape spread below them, and ask their father the cause. ‘ What you can see down there,” he explains, « are the flooded rice fields. The rice plants are so fond of water that the fields in which they are grown must be covered with water all the year round.” We reach Calcutta, one of the great ports of India,
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