INDEX. 399 



Hindoo festivals, compared with those of other nations, iii. 75. 



marriage, i. 76. The nuptial ceremonies fully detailed, iii. G9S. 



schools, i. 75 ; simplicity of a common education, 75 ; instruction of the 



Brahmin youth in superior science, 75. 



village; general description of a village in Guzerat, iii. 63. Poetical, from 



Southey, iii. 63. 



women ; their delicacy, beaut}', dress, manners, and general character, i. 73, &c. 



ceremony of a widow burning herself, i. 279- 



delicacy of bathing in the Nerbudda, ii. 113. 



moral and religious character, i. 137- 



simplicity of female manners, i. 79- 



„ expected duties of a Hindoo wife, and future rewards in consequence. 



iv. 312. 



Hindostan, derivation of the name, i. 59. 



invaded by the Mahomedans, i. 89. 



general beauty of the country, i. 218. 



geographically described, iii. 98. 



Hindu Pantheon, extract from, iv. 309. 

 Hinduism compared with Christianity, iv. 311. 



Hippocampus, sea-horse on the Malabar coast, i. 341. 

 Hippopotamus, river-horse, described, ii. 181. 



Hiroo Nand ; amiable character of that visier, iii. 307 ; more particularly delineated, 

 323; his sickness and death, 324; his funeral and the cremation of his wife, 

 324, &c. 

 Hirrawem, dress used on the pilgrimage to Mecca, ii. 509- 

 Hirrawen, ceremonies at Mecca during the hadje, or pilgrimage, ii. 509. 

 Hodges, Thomas, surprizing circumstances in his life, predicted by a brahmin, 



ii. 526. 

 Hog; wild hogs in India, ii. 286. 

 Hog Island, taken by the English, i. 453. 

 Holwell, governor, his character of the gentoos, iv. 308. 

 Homer, poetical illustration of Guzerat, iii. 258. 

 Honey, wild, food of John the Baptist, explained, i. 46. 

 Hooghly river, formation of that stream, iv. 99- 

 Hooli; Hindoo festival, iii. 74. 

 Horas Biblicse, extracts from, i. 124. 

 Horn, its exalted meaning in India, iii. 278. 

 Horn of victory, Futty Siting's chief title, iii. 278. 



Home, bishop, reflections on his Commentary on the Psalms, iii. 43. Amiable cha- 

 racter, iii. 44. 

 Horses, their variety in India, iii. 100. 



