An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul: Being the Substance of Observations Made During a Mission to That Country, in the Year 1793 (Classic Reprint)Fb&c Limited, 2017 M07 24 - 434 pages Excerpt from An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul: Being the Substance of Observations Made During a Mission to That Country, in the Year 1793 This Government now beheld for the first time, the extraordinary spectacle of a numerous Chinese force, occupying a position, which probably afforded it a dis tant view of the valley of the Ganges, ' and of the richest of the East India Company's Possessions. It is true, that the military character of that people was not of a stamp to excite, under any circumstances, much fear for the safety of those Possessions from their future enterprizes. Least of all had we any thing. To apprehend from this quarter at the period in question, when we had just signally humbled our most formidable'enemy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
