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Europeans and natives. These tiles are not fixed with mortar, 

 but are regularly laid one over the other, and by being adjusted 

 immediately before the setting in of the rains, they keep the roof 

 dry during that period; after which their being misplaced is of 

 little consequence, in a climate where not a shower falls for 

 eight months together. At this critical juncture, when the tiles 

 have just been turned, and the first heavy rain is hourly expected, 

 the injured person, who has secretly vowed revenge against his ad- 

 versary, repairs by night to his house, and contrives to strew over 

 the roof a quantity of rice, or other grain ; this is early discovered 

 by the monkeys, who assemble in a large body to pick up this 

 favourite food: when, finding much of it fallen between the tiles, 

 they make no ceremony of nearly unroofing the house, when no 

 turners of tiles are procurable; nor can any remedy be applied 

 to prevent the torrents of rain from soaking through the cow-dung 

 floors, and ruining the furniture and depositories of grain, which 

 are generally formed of unbaked earth, dried and rubbed over 

 with cow-dung. 



I have formerly described the severity of the setting in of the 

 south-west moonsoon, when I was with the Mahratta army, a few 

 miles from Dhuboy. I afterwards resided there several years dur- 

 ing the rainy season; although in those months there were many 

 delightful intervals of fair weather, yet the commencement and 

 breaking up of the moonsoon was generally very severe: it was 

 then 1 understood the force and beauty of Elihu's speech to Job, 

 which is not so easily conceived in Europe. " Behold God is 

 great, and we know him not! he thundereth with the voice of his 

 excellency, and sendeth his lightning to the ends of the earth: 



