154 HINDOO LADIES BATHING. 



of water, and the Bunyalis feel satisfied that 

 their Tuccavie advances are safe. The inhabit- 

 ants, and especially the Hindoos, are also 

 enabled to bathe ad libitum, and both sexes 

 avail themselves of the element in the most 

 free-and-easy manner. The women repair 

 to the Ghauts at the decline^ of day, in parties 

 of eight or ten, and divest themselves of 

 their apparel in full view of men-bathers, seem- 

 ingly without a thought of the indecency of 

 thus appearing in puris naturalibus. The Sind- 

 hees are not, I should say, prone to the 

 indulgence of frequent bathing ; at any rate, I 

 am sure that the Mahomedan portion of the 

 community are not so, as with some of the 

 highest in rank even batliing is ''an event," 

 and an event, moreover, of not very frequent 

 occurrence. The Hindoo women and children, 

 however, really do seem to enjoy themselves after 

 the filling of the Meerwah, and resort to it in 

 numbers every evening. 



Meer Ali Moorad's night shooting is managed 

 in this wise : the Shikarees discover where the 

 hog and deer resort to drink, in parts of the Meer- 

 wah which always contain a little water. Near 

 these spots Jwodnecs are constructed to leeward 



