Sunderbunds

As far as the dream was concerned her mind had been a perfect blank when she had awakened the previous night groping over the plastered walls; but branded across it, in letters of blood, had been the one word Sunderbunds, standing out clearly against the fog which surrounded something terrible she could not understand.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

We landed at the Sunderbunds on a grilling hot day in December,

Burlesques 2006

It is not wise to wade waist or knee deep in a Sunderbunds creek, and clear a boat with a yo-heave-ho, for fear of some festive mugger, which means alligator, lurking in the mud.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

And there, as I sat in that open boat, midst of the Sunderbunds, at my domestic antipodes, happened to me the most wondrous transformation which the tricksy stage-carpenters and scene-shifters of the brain have ever devised.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

The son of princes sheltering the girl slowly, oh! slowly straightened himself, when a prolonged silence seemed to indicate the end of the greatest earthquake that ever swept the Sunderbunds Jungle.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

Sunderbunds, looking for all the world as though they _had_ been cleared by man some time or another for building purposes.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

The Sunderbunds -- as the natives term that alluvial region which terminates the delta of the Ganges -- can scarcely be considered either land or sea, but rather a multitudinous reticulation of streams, the meshes of which are represented by islands in all the various stages of consistency between water and dry land.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

Walking silently and in single file along a faintly discernible track is an eerie proceeding if you are not used to the Sunderbunds.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

The south wind turned back at the Sunderbunds; instead of it, one met round corners a sudden crispness that stayed just long enough to be recognised and melted damply away.

The Path of a Star Sara Jeannette Duncan

She stood quite still, staring out to where the Sunderbunds lay hidden under mist; then she put one bare foot upon the lower rail, and swinging herself up, sat sideways, leaning far over; in such a position that the slightest lurch of the ship would have sent her headlong into the water.

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest