406 INDEX. 



Massaulchee, a torch-bearer, ii. 417 ; illustrative of the parable of the ten virgins, 



ii. 417- 

 Mausoleums, magnificent, near Cambay, ii. 18; grand tombs at Betwah, iii. 101. 

 Maw Mirza Khan, commander of Tippoo Sultaun's forces against Onore, iv. 122 ; 



his visit on board an English ship, iv. 164; his conduct respecting some brah- 

 mins, iv. lG5. 

 Mayo, one of the Cape de Verd islands, i. 5. 

 Meah-Gaum Rajah, his amiable character, iii. 322 ; compared with Job, 322; his 



oppressive treatment by Futty Sihng, 469. 

 Mecca, pilgrimage thither, ii. 509. 

 Medicine, practice of by the natives in India, iii. 429. 

 Medusa, Portugueze man of war, ii. 200. 

 Mehd Aalea, reposing in heaven, iv. 40. 

 Melinda, on the coast of Africa, ii. 165. 

 Melodies, Hindoo, iii. 298. 



Men twice-born, their high qualifications among the Hindoos, iv. 313. 

 Mendicants, character of Hindoo fakeers and beggars, ii. 466; manner of dispersing 



them from Bombay, 467. 

 Menianthes, beautiful, in the Guzerat lakes, iii. 314. 



Menu, the great Hindoo lawgiver, iii. 17 ; preliminary discourse to his Institutes, iii. 17. 

 Merdi Coura, Indian anthropophagi, ii. 105. 

 Mermaids, on the coast of Africa, ii. 164. 

 Metempsychosis, Hindoo belief of that system, i. 64. 

 Metrahnees, women employed in hospitality, iv. 314. 

 Mhadnjee Sindia, a Mhaiatta chieftain, iii. 347- 



his father's family, and his illegitimate birth, iii. 350. 



elevated to the jaghire of his family by Mahderow, iii. 354. 



elected mediator of a peace between the English and Mahrattas, 



iii. 355. 



city and purgunna of Baroche given him for that service, iii. 355. 



his reception of the British embassy, iv. 50. 



deception and meanness of his presents on that occasion, iv. 50. 



Mhadavi, Ipomea, a beautiful flower, i. 3i. 



Mhadu Gurr, a fortress in Malwa, iv. 5. 



MiaTousaine, wonderful effects from his music, iii. 296. 



Microscope, singular anecdote of one destroyed by a brahmin, ii. 468. 



Minarets, marking the distance between Agra and Delhi, iv. 60. 



Minutedars in the revenue department in India, ii. 4 19- 



Mirjee, or Mirzee, near Onore, the ancient Musiris, i. 304; further account of, 



iv. 109. 

 Mirza, a preacher of Christianity in Persia, iv. 326. 



