howdah

The Parsee, who was an accomplished elephant driver, covered his back with a sort of saddle-cloth, and attached to each of his flanks some curiously uncomfortable howdahs. Phileas Fogg paid the Indian with some banknotes which he extracted from the famous carpet-bag, a proceeding that seemed to deprive poor Passepartout of his vitals.

It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower.

He looked down from his howdah and saw that the elephant had stepped across the body of a snake which was dragging itself through the jungle.

At last he found something really fascinating laid on the front of a howdah half buried in the coins.

The emperor rode in a golden howdah upon the back of a huge elephant so covered with rich hangings and embellished with scintillating gems that scarce more than the beast's eyes and feet were visible.

When thou art old, Kala Nag, there will come some rich rajah, and he will buy thee from the Government, on account of thy size and thy manners, and then thou wilt have nothing to do but to carry gold earrings in thy ears, and a gold howdah on thy back, and a red cloth covered with gold on thy sides, and walk at the head of the processions of the King.

Gary will be offering two Howdahs, built on the Thompson Center G2 and Encore frames.

Trucks transport the actors and crew from one place to another, but also hold the tarpaulin tents, bamboo poles, props, costumes, generators, lighting equipment, sound systems, howdahs and other paraphernalia that help construct the temporary theatres in different villages.

Caption: In India, tigers were often hunted from howdahs mounted on the backs of elephants.

Placed atop elephants were silver howdahs carved with double lion.

precious stuff and stones, tigers, elephants, howdahs, hookahs, umbrellas, palm trees, palanquins, and gorgeous princes of brown complexion sitting on carpets, with their slippers very much turned up at the toes.

As the hot day begins to cool, the crowd grows at the fort's Shringar Chowk, around which the galleries exhibit the royal collection elephant howdahs and palanquins decorated with repousse silverwork.