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Another custom, is their sitting- always on 

 the ground with their knees up to their chins, 

 which I know not how to account for, unless 

 it is by bringing the extremities more on a 

 level with the heart. Europeans in India 

 cannot sit long with ease, without using a 

 morah (a kind of stool to put the legs on) ; if 

 they have not got that, they put their legs on 

 the table, and it is not uncommon to see a 

 whole party after dinner with their legs on the 

 table. A restless uneasiness, occasioned by 

 languid circulation, in the feet and legs, cau- 

 ses this, which I attribute to the heat of the 

 climate causing great exhaustion, and relax- 

 ation; /or Europeans after having resided 

 long in India, do not feel the same inclina- 

 tion on their return to their native coun- 

 try. 



Tattooing and Shampooing (that is using 

 percussion and pressure) have also the effect 

 of assisting the languid circulation, and the 

 relief experienced from it after fatigue, can 

 only be judged of by those who have experien- 

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