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