Akhali Islets, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Landscape Photography Between Riari and the frontier of Portuguese India. Picture is taken near low tide. The point on the right is the mainland.
Aguada Fortress, Goa, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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The lower battery looking east. Cabo on the far side of the river’s mouth (Mandovi). The far point is Mormugao Harbour, on the far side of River Zuari. Aguada Fortress commands the passage of the Mandovi River into Panjim and Old Goa, besides the anchorage itself. Noted for its copious supply ...
Aguada Fortress, Goa, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Lower battery west. The interior of the fort is kept spic and span, the work of the civil prisoners, for there is no longer any garrison there. Aguada Fortress commands the passage of the Mandovi River into Panjim and Old Goa, besides the anchorage itself. Noted for its copious supply of the p...
Pangim [Panjim], Goa, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography Pangim houses once the home of armiger Portuguese families [who] have descended in the social scale. Officials of the government live mostly in the colony of their own, on a nearby hill, and Goans of a better class likewise live in the suburbs. But many of these...
Mangalore Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Tipu Sultan caused to be brought before him the fort commandant and his principal officers who had surrendered to the British and in the presence of his assembled troops had them blown from the muzzles of his great guns. He declaimed: "I, with 30,000 men besieged the place for 8 months and cou...
Jemulabad Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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A 'baffler' wall with a ditch, excavated from the solid rock, before the second gate in the ascent. Twice captured by British and Indian troops, the last time from the robber Tim Naik who, with some of his following was executed (blown from the cannon) at Mangalore.
Jemulabad Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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Half way up the only approach to the fort proper. In military phrasing, a covert way. Twice captured by British and Indian troops, the last time from the robber Tim Naik who, with some of his following was executed (blown from the cannon) at Mangalore.
Jemulabad Fort. The South Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, T.W.
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View from a dead end in the ramparts, with vertical drop to the plain below. Twice captured by British and Indian troops, the last time from the robber Tim Naik who, with some of his following was executed (blown from the cannon) at Mangalore.