2oo TOREEN'S VOYAGE. 



to the bed of my remembrance I was told thatfc) 

 they were foreign in this country. q 



Green parrots with long tails (PJittacus 

 articularius) are very numerous here. Their 

 fagacity in knowing where to find a breakfaft 

 is remarkable : for the houfe of the Shafdaar 

 Khan was built in fucli a manner, that through 

 fome holes contrived for that purpofe the bird? 

 could get to the rice which was refufed to the 

 poor inhabitants. 



They put oxen before their waggons and 

 carts, and take as much care of them as a 

 hackney- coachman of his horfes. Their ex- 

 crements are gathered, mixed with ftraw, and 

 ufed as fuel ; the afhes of it make the paint 

 which the Bramins ufe. They want no 

 whip to drive them, but in the Portugueze 

 manner a flick with a fpike at its end. Their 

 carts are of a peculiar conitru&ion : the axle-- 

 tree is made of iron, and fcarcely of the 

 thicknefs of the laft joint of the little linger j 

 it is fattened to the axle-tree of the wheels : 

 the wheel moves between an upright {landing 

 pole and two linch-pins, which, together with 

 an arch, carry the bamboo net or cover on 

 •which one fits 5 this is either with pr without 



curtains ,j 



