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  • This woman called Mammele, Khashki (the diminuitive of her Hebrew name Khasia), Bubbie,

    PrawfsBlawg 2009

  • Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains etc. 2 volumes - 1854.

    Archive 2007-05-01 tellurian 2007

  • Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia mountains etc. 2 volumes - 1854.

    Joseph Dalton Hooker tellurian 2007

  • The Malayan type of vegetation is however a very important one; and Dr. Hooker informs us, in his “Flora Indica,” that it spreads over all the moister and more equable parts of India, and that many plants found in Ceylon, the Himalayas, the Nilghiri, and Khasia mountains are identical with those of Java and the Malay peninsula.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • Himalayans eastward from Sikkim, and the Murmese tribes of the Khasia

    Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

  • Your Khasia perceives them, and immediately descends with you on to his hands and knees, and grovels about until he recovers the fallen raiment.

    My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891

  • 'Khasia Thoppa' down the last hill of the range upon which Shillong is situated, which brings you down into the plain of

    My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891

  • Shillong is a lovely little station nestling away amongst the Khasia Hills, in the midst of pine woods, and abounding in waterfalls and mountain-torrents.

    My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891

  • To these must be added, as in the Bengali character though non-Aryan languages, versions in Khasi and Manipoori, the former for the democratic tribes of the Khasia hills among whom the Welsh

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

  • Khasia hills, to be a centre of diffusing light in the western provinces.

    Life of William Carey George Smith 1876

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