Rajamundrug Fort, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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A bastion on the crest of the cliff, which here rises straight up from a rocky wave beaten foreshore. Elsewhere the defences are almost level with the ground.
Kumpta, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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The shady road from the town to the bunder where passengers and cargo is loaded into boats for transhipment into coasting steamers or country craft. The principle transport is the betelnut, more properly ‘areca’.
Bhatkal, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Passangers are loaded up on the seaward beach, but when the boats are not in use they lie insid the creek. The Company's office is in the side of the hill across the water. Bhatkal. An open fair weather roadstead. A port project was mooted to cut the narrow isthmus behind the headland and link...
Bednore Fort, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Architectural Photography The gate out of which marched General Mathews and about 1200 of his men, having capitulated to Tipu Sultan on terms. It being agreed that they should pile their arms on glacis and then be permitted to march to Sadashevgad for repatriation to Bombay. One of the p...
Kaup Light, The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Erected on the mainland opposite the Mulki Rocks after 'Ogwen' wreck. Its beam is clearly visible from Mangalore. It is a favourite posting for Indian Christian light attendants. In a predominantly Hindu locality the demand for beef is small, so that a whole cow (sc...
Bankote, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Bankote being a day's journey by 'bunder' boat from Bombay in the fair season, many of the European residents made a jolly excursion of it and continued in the same boats to Dasgaum at the head of the creek. From thence they finished their journey to Mahableshwar by land. The Mohamedan gentlem...
Goa, Portuguese India. The bungalow of the British Resident in Goa during the military occupation of 1798-1815. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography It was then appropriated to the officer deputed to the Government of Bombay to supervise the working of the Salt Convention entered into with the Government of Portuguese India. It was at Donna Paula, on the southern side of Cabo peninsular, overlooking the Rive...
Gokarn Head, The North Canara Coast. A bold promontory between Karwar and Tadri. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography This is a prolongation of picture 310. A cove on the northern side of the headland accessible only with difficulty, there being not as much as a goat track to the bottom. On these sands were the pugs of two panthers, side by side.