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| Instructions to Persons proceeding to India regarding articles to be provided, and precautions to be adopted | 1 | to | 30 |
| Matters relating to embarking, and the usual customs on board-ship, sea-sickness, fishing at sea | 31 | . | 60 |
| Foreign settlements, Brazils, crossing the Line | 61 | . | 68 |
| Religious character of sailors, funerals at sea, Cape of Good Hope | 69 | . | 88 |
| Of St. Helena | 89 | . | 109 |
| Island of Johanna, and the Comoro Cluster | 110 | . | 119 |
| Whale-fishery in the Mozambique Channel | 120 | . | 123 |
| White-squalls, passage round Ceylon, and up the Coromandel coast | 124 | . | 126 |
| Madras, masoolah-boats, debashes, bad meats, localities | 127 | . | 138 |
| General track up the Bay, cautions necessary to be adopted by pilot-schooners at the Sand-heads | 139 | . | 141 |
| General appearance of the coast, modes of getting up from the ship to Calcutta | 142 | . | 154 |
| Coins and weights in use, land measure | 155 | . | 160 |
| Taverns to be avoided, instructions and cautions regarding servants, women, &c. | 161 | . | 172 |
| Estimate of primary and current expences | 173 | . | 175 |
| Acquirement of the language, with advice regarding conduct in general | 176 | . | 178 |
| Reasons for retaining a number of servants, religious scruples | 179 | . | 185 |
| Classification of servants | 186 | . | 188 |
| The Banian, and Darogah | 188 | . | 192 |
| The Moonshy, the Jemmadar, the Chobe-dar, the Soontah-burdar, the Kansamah, the Sircar, the Cranny, specimen of style | 191 | . | 212 |
| The Khedmutgar, The Mosaulchy, the Hookah-burdar, the Hookah, the Kaleaun, the Goorgoory, and the Neriaul | 212 | . | 228 |
| Modes of carrying water, the Bheesty, Tatties | 229 | . | 236 |
| The Babachy, the Durzy, the Doby, the Mohout, the Mate, and the Surwan | 236 | . | 253 |
| The Syce, the Grass-cutter, the Mauly, mode of drawing water | 254 | . | 266 |
| The Aub-dar, the Compadore, the Hirkarah, the Duftoree, the Fraush, the Mater, the Dooreah, mode of keeping and feeding dogs | 267 | . | 280 |
| The Kalashy, the Manjy, the Goleeah, and the Dandy | 281 | . | 287 |
| The Berrairah, description of sheep, and mode of fattening | 288 | . | 293 |
| The Chokey-dar, curious system of vigilance in the upper provinces, expert thieves | 294 | . | 298 |
| The Durwan, the Cahar, insolence of the Ooreah bearers | 298 | . | 310 |
| Hints regarding the lading of cattle | 310 | . | 311 |
| Umbrellas, punkahs, liveries | 312 | . | 313 |
| The mahanah-palanquin, the boçhah, the taum-jaung, the bangy | 313 | . | 324 |
| The r’hunt, the g’horry-waun, fine bullocks, the g’horry, the hackery | 325 | . | 333 |
| Cautions against engaging European servants, either male or female | 333 | . | 336 |
| The Portugueze Ayah, ridiculously vain of their genealogies | 337 | . | 339 |
| The Hindostanee Ayah | 340 | . | 341 |
| The Dhye, domestic secrets | 341 | . | 346 |
| Domestic manners and customs of the natives, with details of the state of society among them | 347 | . | 408 |
| Flying kites, great dexterity, natives peculiarly tenacious of privacy in their dwellings | 408 | . | 411 |
| European polygamy, characters of women generally domiciliated by Europeans, ordinary expences | 412 | . | 416 |
| Dress and ornaments of a Hindostanee lady | 417 | . | 431 |
| Scented oils, mode of extracting the attar of roses, with calculation of expences | 431 | . | 441 |
| Unctions in general use, bathing, alligators | 442 | . | 448 |
| Invitations, visiting, female nomenclature, loud music | 449 | . | 451 |
| Reasons for Europeans retaining native women, and impediments in the way of marriage | 451 | . | 458 |
| Orphan Institution | 459 | . | 468 |
| Vaccination in Bengal, mode of inoculating in use among the Brahmans, and among the Pahariahs, making capons | 469 | . | 475 |
| The Native Hospital at Calcutta | 479 | . | 482 |
| Style of building among the natives, mode of thatching, domestic furniture, the beetle-leaf and plant | 483 | . | 498 |
| Cheroots, women smokers, imitations of native manners, dress, &c., and vice versâ | 499 | . | 502 |
| Mirza Alu Taaleb Khan, his ingratitude and vanity, comparison of his poetry with that of Hafiz and Yuqueen | 503 | . | 509 |
| Precautions against fire, heavy rains, protection against them | 509 | . | 514 |
| Bungalows, bricklayers, carpenter and smith, houses smeared with cow-dung, mindy applied to hands and feet | 514 | . | 520 |