INDEX. 417 



Serpents — snakes in South America, i. 7. Variety of serpents in India, with the ef- 

 fect of their poison, i. 45. Those in the Concan, i. 199. Different, serpents in 

 Guzerat, ii. 245. Anecdote of a hooded-snake, ii. 245. Supposed cause of ser- 

 pent-worship, ii. 329. Combat of a snake with the ichneumon, ii. 248. Serpents 

 guardians of concealed treasure, ii. 384. Curious adventure with one of them in 

 Guzerat, ii. 385. Treatment of a guardian snake at Surat, ii. 387- Herodotus 

 and ancient historians on serpents, ii. 388. Cure of their bite by a banian at Ba- 

 roche, iii. 248. Two hundred and nineteen kinds described by Gmelin, iii. 333. 

 Figurative and symbolical, iii. 334. Serpent's fang described by Paley, iii. 335. 



Serula, residence of the Bhauts, ii. 520. 



Sevajee, founder of the Mahratta empire, i. 302. Further account of that rajah, i. 

 464. 



Shah Aalum, or Shah Allum, king of the world, emperor of Hindostan, a public visit 

 to, iv. 53 ; his degradation, court, and presents, 55; his person, dress, 8cc. 56; 

 cruelties inflicted on him by Gulam Kaudir, 58. 



Shah-Bhaug, royal gardens at Ahmedabad, iii. 136. 



Shahjee, his contrivance for weighing an elephant, ii. 455. 



Shah-Jehan-abad, new city of Delhi, its palaces, buildings, 8cc. iv. 61. 



Shah-Jehan-pore, in Malwa, iv. 10. 



Shah Zadas, Persian nobles at Cambay, ii. 25. Elegant taste for poetry, iii. 178. 



Shaik Edroos the leper, ii. 507- 



Shaik Mucdum, English generosity to him, iv. ill. 



Shark, account of that fish, i. 9. On the coast of Guinea, ii. 201. 



Shark's-fins, an article of trade, i. 321. 



Sharukh, talking-bird in India, i. 48. 



Shasta, Hindoo name for Salsette island, iii. 449. 



Shastah, or Sastra, sacred scripture of the Hindoos, iv. 296. 



Shawls, a valuable and beautiful manufacture, i. 258. 



Sheep-eaters, a Hindoo tribe who eat live sheep, i. 400. 



Sheep-skin death, among the Mahrattas, ii. 430. iii. 386. 



Sherbets, spiced and perfumed, ii, 227. 



Ship, dreadful situation on fire, i. 10. 



Shunamite, her chamber for Elisha illustrated, iii. 408. 



Sickligullee, fall of pearls, iv. 95. 



Silk cotton-tree of Malabar, its beauty, i. 353. 



Silver mosque at Baroche, ii. 254. 



Simplicity of Asiatic manners illustrated, iii. 328. 



Simmons' cove, in bay Falso, ii. 167. 



Singing men and women in India, i. 82. 



Singore river, iv. 77- 



Slavery in India, comparatively mild, iii. 167. Its evils and privations, iii. 168. 



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