Gokarn Head, The North Canara Coast. A bold promontory between Karwar and Tadri. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography 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.
Gokarn Head, The North Canara Coast. A bold promontory between Karwar and Tadri. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography 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. The rocky barricade at the other end of the cove.
Belikan [Belekan], The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Tadri town is around the bend, inside the bar of the river. Rajamundrug fort is across the water on the western heights. As timber was abundant here (floated down the river from the forests) ship-building was at one time a local industry.
On the foreshore path from Belikan [Belekan] to Tadri. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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The tulsee [Tulsi plant] tree (the holy basil of the Hindus) outside the dwelling of a Hindu widow. It is carefully looked after by the woman, her husband’s ashes being preserved there. The piece of carving from a wrecked bungalow was her own idea of decoration, and she was very pleased that it ...
The Mirjan river from a bastion of Rajamundrug Fort. The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mirjan is some 3 or 4 miles up stream, on a southward bend of the river. Tadri, among the trees commences just inside the bar. In the 2nd Mysore War a detachment of Bombay N.I., under Lieut. Ross, burnt what was said to be intended for a 50 gun ship, building on t...
The Mirjan River, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Mirjan (in sight from the eastward side of the fort) is some 3 or 4 miles up stream, on a southward bend of the river. Tadri, among the trees commences just inside the bar. In the 2nd Mysore War a detachment of Bombay N.I., under Lieut. Ross, burnt what was said t...
Tadri Bay, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Genre: Landscape Photography Belikan sands are in the far end corner of the picture. Tadri, among the trees commences just inside the bar. In the 2nd Mysore War a detachment of Bombay N.I., under Lieut. Ross, burnt what was said to be intended for a 50 gun ship, building on the stocks for Tipu ...
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.
Mirjan or Mirjee Fort, The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Approaching the ruins of Mirjan Fort. A raised bund through the paddy fields. Thought to be the Musiris of the ancients. 7 miles from Tadri and between Rajamundrug and Kumpta. In 1772, when James Forbes (author of Oriental Memoirs) saw it, it was held by Hyder Ali Khaun, but was subsequently de...