CONTENTS. 



Residence at Tellicherry — parties of pleasure — climate and healthy 

 situation of Tellicherry — subjects in natural history — plants — 

 Gloriosa superba — cruel fate of the English prisoners with Tippoo 

 Sultaun, taken at Bedmure — savage treatment of the officers and 

 privates in marching through the country— fate of General 

 Mathews and two other gentlemen taken off by poisoned coffee — 

 mechanical tiger — refinements in cruelty — contrast between Domi- 

 tian and Nero — rigid discipline of Tippoo — different account of 

 General Mathews' death — fate of the captains and subaltern offi- 

 cers — Hyder Ally's character superior to his soji's — origin of Hyder 

 ■ — commencement and rapidity of his military career— further ac- 

 counts of his family and exaltation — his high command and dignity 

 under the rajah of Mysore — usurps the sovereignty, imprisons the 

 rajah, and takes the title of ftTawaub — makes Seringapatam his 

 capital — sea-ports — Mangulore — splendor of the tiger throne— the 

 Huma — the tiger a family emblem — prayer of Tippoo — a letter of 

 tremendous brevity — account of Hyder' s durbar — ??iany particulars 

 of Tippoo 's character, dress, §c, — character of Mahomet and his 

 immediate successors — -magnificence of the Arabian caliphs — refec- 

 tion of Abdalrhaman — remark of Gibbon — palace at Seringapatam, 

 — -Tippoo 's bed-chamber guarded by four tigers — predilection of the 



