CONTENTS. 



Departure from Ahmedabad — visit the mosques and tombs at Peerana 

 —Dolcah, a large and strong town — Cusbattees on military tenure 

 — beauty of the country — depredations of the Coolies — Bursora — 

 return to Cambay — summer palaces and gardens — palace in Cut- 

 tek — correspondence with Mirza Zummaun, vizier of Cambay, 

 when disgraced by the nabob — Siddees and attendants on the nabob 

 — slavery in India — portrait of an Asiatic sovereign — cruelty of ze- 

 mindars and officers of government — purchase of slaves — Nabob's 

 entertainment at Dil Gusha — gardens — temple of fountains — luxury 

 of an oriental evening — pavilions — dancing girls — songs — poetry — 

 Persian stanzas and distichs — Persian feast — professed story-tellers 

 at Cambay — illustrations of Scripture by modern customs in India — 

 Voltaire's philosophy — fatal tendency of infidelity in India — David 

 Hume — discrimination in the oriental entertainments as to food and 

 presents of apparel — a passage in Scripture explained from Homer, 

 and modern manners in Hindost an— further illustrations— fami- 

 liarity of the inferior mahomedans at great feasts — subjection of 

 Asiatic females — tents and pavilions — palanquins — hackaree— feast 

 of Ahasuerus contrasted with modern entertainments — great simi- 

 larity of ancient and modern despotism — princely banquet from a 

 Persian story — intelligent brahmins — departure from Cambay — 

 reflections on the journey. 



