VOLUME I. PLATES, 



FRONTISPIECE. 



YoGEY, or penitential Faquir. Thefe clafles devote them felves 

 to varieties of mofi: cruel aufterities. Tavemier, at p. 166 of his travels 

 in Indiay gives a plate of the various penances they inflid on them- 

 felves. They feled: a large Banian-tree, under which they aflonifh 

 mankind with their flrange diftortions. Thefe foon lofe the ufe of fome 

 or other of their limbs, by their perfifling in the moft unnatural atti- 

 tudes. They are the moft fqualid of the order. They leave the hair of 

 their head to grow far below their rumps, and the beards to an enor- 

 mous bufhinefs. They permit their nails to alTume the form of talons,, 

 and often, by clafping their hands, fufFer them to penetrate deep into the 

 flefhi 



The other figure is of a Pandaram, or SenaJJey, of the ckfs of pilgrims 

 to the various Pagodas, many of which are as eminent for their fandlity 

 and miraculous powers as thofe of the moft fuperftitious 'Europeans, Thefe 

 are from their aftive life ftout and robuft. They wear their hair fhort 

 on the fides, and tied up in a knot on the top of their head. Their 

 beards fhort and rough. Their manners are before related. Both thefe 

 ziQ'GymnofophiJls, or naked philofophers, but differ widely in their mo- 

 rals:, the laft go armed, often with the horns of the fmooth-horned An- 

 telope, 



