CONTENTS
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VOL. I.


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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