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CHAPTER XXVI. 



Purgunna, capital and villages. . necessity of making good the roads and high-ways 

 after the rains, .elucidates a passage of scripture, .another passage explained. . 

 beauty of the country at the close of the rainy season. . morvah-tree, its valuable 

 produce. . palmyra tree. . sugar-cane. . bamboo. . curious banian-trees. . wells. . few 

 wants of the natives. . simplicity of Indian manufactures. . curious method of 

 ascertaining the weight of an elephant. . fraudulent deceptions in weighing cot- 

 ton. . cunning and duplicity of the Hindoos, .banians at Surat. . excursions in pur- 

 gunnas. . use and beauty of a summiniana. .interviews with oriental travellers., 

 beauties of Cachemire. . Bernier's account of Aurungzebe's journey to that pro- 

 vince. . conversation with a travelling brahmin at Dliuboy ; his account of British 

 India under Mr. Hastings. . felicity of his government. . opposed to the misrepre- 

 sentations in England. . address from Calcutta on his acquittal. . real character of 

 Mr. Hastings. . his retirement at Dalesford. . description of the Hindoo mendi- 

 cants. . visit of these naked philosophers at Bombay. . mode of getting rid of 

 such troublesome companions. . anecdote of a brabmin destroying a microscope. . 

 the difference between the Hindoo metempsychosis and christian philosophy. . 

 vanjarrahs. .extraordinary feats of Indian jugglers. . Hindoo drama. . Arab and 

 Scindian infantry in India, .hawking. . fighting rams. . hospitality of the Arabs. . 

 power of music on antelopes in a spectacle at Poonah. . its effect on different ani- 

 mals. . destruction of monkeys by tigers. . cruelty of Bheels and Gracias. . presen- 

 tation of a Gracia's head, .cruelty of the ancients in collecting the heads of their 

 enemies, extending down to Hyder Ally.. death of an Indian female from Futty 

 Silmg's seraglio. . Hindoo southsayers, and diviners. . wilds of Baderpoor. . royal 

 spo.tts of the Mogul princes. . description of a tiger-hunt by Sir John Day. . . . 449 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



Zinore purgunna. . town of Zinore. . groves and temples. . manufactures. . extreme 

 fineness of Indian muslin informer times, . primitive simplicity of the natives.. 



