A.

ABLUTIONS of the Hindoos, i. 522.

ii. 29. 99. 134
Abul Fazel, his account of Akber's
seraglio, ii. 206; his piety and
humility, 210

Addison, remark of, i. 219
Adjutant-bird, its utility, i. 403
Adventure, perilous, ii. 178
Afghans, their signal defeat of the
Mahrattas at Panniput, i. 296
African lion, its noble behaviour,
i. 443

Agra, desolate appearance of, ii.
410; the Taje Mahal at, 411;
Shah Jehan's Mausoleum at,
413; departure of the embassy
from, for Calcutta, 434
Agriculture, at Surat, i. 168;
state of, in Guzerat, ii. 33
Ahasuerus, reign of, ii. 240;
barbarous decree of, 242
Ahmed, Sultan, grand mosque
erected by him, ii. 196
Ahmedabad, conquest of, ii. 154;
journey from Dhuboy to, ib.;
country in the vicinity of, 186;
desolation at, 191; description
of the city, 192; its former mag-
nificence, 193; unhappy fami-
lies at, 194; the serais at, 195;
the grand mosque, 196; the
ivory mosque, 198; its former
palaces and gardens, 199;
called the City of Dust, ib.;
Hummums, or warm baths at,
200; beautiful lake near, 201;
manufactures of, 202; artists
of, ib.; excursion to the royal
garden near, 205; its conquest
by the English, 217; ruined
palaces of, ib.; delightful scen-
ery round the city, 280

Ahmood, town of, ii. 155; soli.
tary journey to, 244
Akber, account of his reign, i. 67;
description of his seraglio, ii.
206; his exceeding wisdom,
211; said to be of Hindoo
origin, 212; annual ceremony
of, ib.; coins and seals of, 213;
succeeded by his son, Selim,
216; splendid shahmyanah of,
240; public schools instituted
by, 260; his partiality to mu-
sic, 306; celebrated musicians
in the reign of, 308; mauso-
leum of, at Secundra, 416
Akberpore, journey to, ii. 436
Alexandria, number of baths at,
ii. 200

Alla Bhaug, a Mahratta town,
hospitable reception at, i. 133
Allahabad, fortifications at, ii.
439; subterranean temple at,
440; remarkable trees at, 441;
mausoleum of Kusroe at, ib.
Alligator, described, i. 225; de-
ceptive appearance of, ib.; its
extraordinary size and strength,
226

Al Mamon, anecdote of, ii. 233
Amin, musical works of, ii. 306
Anderson, Mr. ii. 411. 415. 417.
419

Anglo-Indians, character of, i. 98
Animals, digestive faculties of, ii.

332

Anjengo, voyage from Bombay to,
i. 185. 212; account of the
town of, 213; its inhabitants,
214; celebrity of the place,
215; severity of the south-
west monsoon at, 215; danger
of landing at, 216; curious
contest in the river at, 217;

Apple-trees, at St. Helena, i. 451
Arabians, their zeal to spread

their new religion, i. 75; cha-
racter of, ii. 80; hospitality of
the, 82; 239
Architecture of the Hindoos, i.
537

Armies, Indian, character of, i.

342

Mahratta, how composed,
i. 337; want of discipline in,
338;
standards and ensigns of,
339; titles conferred on the
officers of, 340; division of the
cavalry, 344; amusements in
the camp, 349; number of cat-
tle in, 351; hermaphrodites in,
359; tactics in, ib.; march of,
362; camp-followers in the,
410

Arras, arrival of Ragobah on the

plains of, i. 381; battle on,
383; number of killed and
wounded at, 385

Artists, modern, of Ahmedabad,
ii. 202

Ascension Island, turtle of, ii. 487
Asia, custom of making presents

in, i. 316; diversions at, 330
Asses, universally ill-treated, i.
410

Astrology and augury among the

Hindoos, i. 58. 381; ii. 115
Asuf-ud-Dowlah, his great wealth,
ii. 298

Augurs and soothsayers in India,
ii. 260

Aurungzebe, instance of his cruel-
ty, i. 288; his death, 290;
contest between his sons for
the Mogul throne, ib. ; his visit
to Cachemire, in 1663, ii.
69; letter to, 138; reign of,
218

Avyar, an extraordinary female,
account of, ii. 368; extracts
from her writings, 369
Azores, violent storm off the, i.
456; climate of, 457

B.
Baba-Rahan, a Mussulman saint,
disturbances caused by, i. 486
Badjerow, administration of, i.
293; his death, 294.
Bahjeree, a kind of grain, ii. 35
Ballajee Row, peshwa of the
Mahrattas, i. 294; his death,
296; licentious conduct of his
widow, 304

Wissanath, exaltation of,
i. 292; his services to the
Mahrattas, 293; his death, ib.
Baloo Paundeh, a Brahmin, mur-

ders his daughter, i. 494
Bamboo, its various uses, ii. 62
Bancoote river, variety of fish in
the, i. 110

Banian Hospital, at Surat, de-
scribed, i. 156

tree, account of the, i. 14;
Hindoo veneration of, 15; de-
scribed by Milton, 18; curious
one in Bahar, 62
Banquepore, the Gola at, ii. 445
Bards, Eastern, ii. 257
Baroche, march to, i. 389; rob-
bers in, 390; description of
the city, 391; ancient history
of, 392; mosques and mauso-
leums at, 393; trade of, ib.;
journey from Surat to, 462;
former commerce of the city,
464; cotton trade of, 465;
revenues of, 466; water-melons
of, 468; jattaras held near, 473;

lines inscribed under an urn in
a garden at, 479; serpents at,
481; price of labour at, 485;
grand mausoleum at, 486; frau-
dulent cotton-dealers of, ii. 65;
dreadful storm at, 156; its ces-
sion to the Mahrattas, 339;
feelings of the inhabitants on
the occasion, 340. 360
Barrow, curious anecdote related
by, i. 442

Baths, luxury of, in the torrid
zone, i. 481

Bats, enormous in Cubbeer-Burr,
ii. 269; claw, or hook, on their
wings, 270

Baubul-tree, caterpillars' nests in,
i. 504

Baya, or bottle-nested sparrow,
described, i. 33; theirnests,506
Bears, ferocity of, i. 511
Bednore, fate of the British offi-

cers captured at, ii. 461
Beds of gold and silver, ii. 240
Beechuck, a Brahmin, commits
matricide, i. 495

Behemoth, identical with the hip-
popotamus, i. 438
Beiram, incident on the approach
of the, i. 474

Bellapoor, aspect of the country
between that place and Dhu-
boy, i. 404

Belligola, height of the image at,
i. 197

Benares, court of justice at, ii. 25;
religious mendicants at, 443;
pagodas at, ib.; the celebrated
observatory at, 444
Bengal, delicacy of the muslins of,
ii. 95

Bernier, affecting spectacle wit-
nessed by, i. 182; his account
of the Brahmins, ii. 47; ac-
companies the Emperor Au-
rungzebe to Cachemire, 69
Berye, iron-mines near, ii. 402
Best, Capt. concludes a treaty with
the Mogul government, i. 149

VOL. II.

529

Betel-nut-tree (or areca) describ-

ed, i. 19; cultivation of, ii. 37
Betsy, schooner, sails from Bom-
bay for the Cape of Good Hope,
i. 420
Bettassee, Mahratta encampment
at, i. 386

Betwah, or Puttowah, account of
the Mahomedan tombs at, ii.
187. 189

Bhaderpoor, produce of, i 516;
state of the roads in, ii. 59;
trees in, 61; simple life of
the inhabitants, 63; cultiva-
tion in, 64; travelling in, 67;
the rendezvous of travellers,
72; beauty of the scenery in,
87; wild beasts in, ib.
Bhaughulpore, improvements at,
ii. 447

Bhauts, occupations of the, i. 377;
privileges of the, 378; dread-
ful sacrifice of the, 379; tradi-
tion related by, 543; customs
of the, ii. 24; character of,
110; guarantee given by the,
258

Bheels, depredations of the, ii. 247
Bhindera Bund, celebrity of the

town of, ii. 418

Bhource, a kind of well, i. 387
Birds, instinct and memory of, i.

502

of Malabar, i. 228
tropical, beauty of, i. 3
Birds'-nests, edible, at Sacrifice
Rock, i. 203; on the structure
of, 505
Biswamintree, stone bridge over
the, ii. 287

Blind man, extraordinary faculties
of, ii. 3

Blood, human, custom of drinking,
ii. 256

Boag, Mr. his account of the ser-

pents at Bombay, ii. 328
Bombay, long residence at, i. 11;

state of the settlement in 1766,
ib.; description of the island,

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12; vegetables and spices of,
22; fish at, 36; description of
the inhabitants, 38; the Hin-
doos, ib.; European inhabitants
of, and their mode of life, 94;
public buildings at, 95; com-
merce of, 96; its government,
97; life at, 100; variation in
society and manners at, 379;
increase in the population of, ib.;
price of provisions, at, ib.; In-
dian morality at, 381; the Par-
sees at, 386

Borahs, tribe of, i. 470. 471
Bowa-peer, pass of, on the Ner-

budda, i. 396; ii. 280; tomb
at, i. 398; march from, to Dhu-
boy, ib.

Brahmin, a learned one, ii. 243
Brahmins, privileges of the, i. 40.

380; their mode of life, 50;
doctrines of, 92; their worship,
273; respect paid to, 346;
their dinners described, 346;
prohibited from animal food,
349; revenge, of at Poonah,
412; instances of their cruelty,
494; sacrifices of the, 514;
indolent life of, 523; exalta-
tion of, 526; their wonderful
power over the Hindoos, ii. 24;
luxuries of the, 47; their craf-
tiness and duplicity, 65; terri-
torial revenue appropriated to,
51; effects produced by a mi-
croscope on one, 74; sorcerers
among the, 111; remarkable
predictions of, 117-122.125;
their worship, 133; discourse
of the, 136; their religious be-
lief, 137; inquiries of the, 145;
their ceremonies described,
168; character of the, 501;
superstition of, 507

of Malabar, account
of, i. 237; their consequence,

241
Brama, the Supreme Deity of
the Hindoos, i. 43

Brazils, beautiful scenery of the,

ii. 2
Brodera, description of the city
of, ii 282; Mahomedan mosques
and tombs at, 284; magnifi-
cent well at. 286; stone bridge
near, 287; excellent provisions
at, ib.; villages in the district,
290; birds in, 327

Buffaloe, wild, ferocity of, i. 223
Buchanan, Dr. Claudius, i. 210;
his visit to the Syrian churches,
262. 410

Francis, anecdote re-
lated by, ii, 12
Bulbul, or Persian nightingale,
sweetness of its song, i. 34; on
the absence of his mistress, 35
Bushmen, account of the, i. 436
Butler, extract from his Horæ
Biblicæ, i 81

Buxar, fortress of, ii. 444

C.

Cachemire, unrivalled beauty of,
ii. 68

Shawls, manufacture

of, i. 158
Cadets, employment of, ii. 481
Caffraria, little known, i. 437
Calcutta, college at, ii. 305
Calicut, arrival off, i. 9; memora-
ble as the landing-place of
Vasco de Gama, 204; its ex-
ternal appearance, 477; con-
quest of, 478
Callander, Mr. ii. 158
Cambay, voyage from Surat to,
i. 310; quicksands in the gulf
of, 313; account of the town,
318; the Jumma Mosseid at,
319; curious Hindoo temple
at, 320; its former celebrity,
321; trade of, 322; cheapness
of provisions at, 323; precious
stones of, ib.; account of the
Nabob of, 324; detention of
the British forces at, 325; Per-
sian Refugees at, 328; diver-

sions at, 330; summer palace
at, 331
Cambay Purgunna, government
of, ii. 163; delightful prospects
in, 164; oppressions of the
Nabob of, 171; summer palace
in, 229
Camdeo, or Kama-deva, account
of, ii. 102; hymn to, 103
Camel, qualities of the, i. 356;
its great utility, 357
Canara, visit to the excavations
of, i. 265; sculptured moun-
tains of, 274
Candhar, pleasant situation of,

i. 118

Cannamore, its trade in pepper,
i. 198

Cape de Verd Islands, arrival at,
i. 456

Cape of Good Hope, violent

storms at the, i. 5. 423; inte-
rior settlements of, 432; cha-
racter of the Dutch farmers at
the, 433

Town, described, i. 426;
public gardens near, 427; in-
habitants of, 428; accommo-
dations at, 429; wines at, 430;
scarcity of timber at, 431;
beautiful plants at, ib.; the
Governor of, 434; menagerie
at, 437; villas and plantations
near, 443

Caranjah, account of the principal
town of, i. 285
Cardamom plant, its cultivation
at Tellicherry, i. 199
Carwar, town of, i. 193
Carwithen, Mr. his lectures on
the Brahminical religion, i.
86
Cassia-tree, described, i. 221
Cassowary, its aversion to the fair
sex, i. 441

Caste, rejection of, i. 255
Caterpillars, instinct of, i. 504;
their nests, 505
Caunpore, military station of,

531

ii. 437; wolves in the vicinity
of, 438

Cavalcade, magnificent, at Surat,

i. 161
Cemeteries and gardens, at Surat,
i. 152; mode of watering them,

153

187

extensive, in Asia, ii.

Ceremony, Oriental, described,

i. 329
Chamelion of the Concan, i.
111

Chandalahs, or Pariars, abject
state of, i. 51. 528; abodes of,
529; prejudice against them,
ii. 315
Chandode, sanctity of the district
of, i. 515; ii. 126; lustral ce-
remonies in, 127; funeral mo-
numents to pilgrims at, 131;
elegance of the temple at, 134;
sacred groves at, 280
Cheeta, described, i. 170; method
of hunting with the, 171; its
sagacity, 172; extraordinary
speed of, 173; its surprising
dexterity, 174; anecdote of
one, 175
Children, sale of, at Anjengo,
ii 251; married in infancy,
312

Chinese, honourable conduct of
a, ii. 475

Christian religion, benevolent pre-
cepts of the, i. 533 ; ii. 49. 153.
505.523

Christians, their lukewarmness,
ii. 146; life of, 151; hope of,
153

Chunar, quarries at, ii. 442
Civet-cat, difficult to tame, i. 224
Cleveland, Mr. improvements
made by, ii. 447

Cobra de Capello, or hooded-
snake, i. 28. 538; ii. 328
Cochin, Dutch settlement of, i.
situation of the town of,
206; extensive trade of, 207;

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