56 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. N.S., XVIII, 
is put on. It consists of striped drawers, a shirt, or cloth 
doublet, a skull cap with flaps fastened behind, and slippers. 
The women on festivals wear a white lace veil, or mantilla, 
covering the head and shoulders, while the common dress is a 
‘many young men go to Calcutta, taking service as cooks, or 
undertakers (‘ 
€ peasantry are industrious though poor. They culti- 
tia Hor further particulars regarding the *Feringhees,” see ‘* Cal- 
cutta Review.” Vol. liii, for 1871. [F i ad 
Pl. T, (3), and Pl. 11. H.E. 8, [For the clothes worn at weddings vide 
ee — Barbier, however writing from Chittagong in 1713, says: 
Les Chrétiens du dedans des terres, nommés Boctos.” 
se 
gong, but they have lapsed to a sort of Hinduism. ey claim to be 
Kshatriyas, but communication with them is regarded as polluting by 
orthodox Hindus. Most of them serve as musicians and singers at fest- 
ivals, though of late some have taken to business (Letter from Father 
Rice en tar quoted by Father Hosten in Bengal: Past and Present, 1910, 
__ [This paragraph certainly gives a wrong impression—at all events 
of things as they now are. The Mission under the Bishop of Dacca has 
of other missionary enterprises. I am extremely doubtful also of the accu- 
me i ES]. paragraph, save possibly in a few isolated cases in the 
