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will you accomplish in lying, oh KabIr ? Arise and sorrow for nothing — how can 

 he whose abode is in the grave (i. e. who reflects on the evanescence of this life) 

 — (how can he) sleep in quiet ? 



6. — By adoring Ra'ma, the state of Brahm is attained ; this has been fully 

 proved by his votaries. Let, therefore, all the R£msan&his meet together, and 

 raise a hallelujah to Ra'ma. 



7 — Should the devotee go forth in the autumn, and trampling upon the numer- 

 ous animals which are born at that season, occasion their death, he forfeits his 

 innocence, inasmuch as he destroys the feelings of his heart, and thereby commits 

 sin at every instant. Tulsi says, this is not devotion either in mind, deed, or 

 speech, but the devotee who is careful to remain quietly at home observes the 

 rules of virtue. 



(These verses are dated Tuesday, the 6th day of Chait, in the Samvat 

 year 1855 (a. d. 1798), the year of Ramcharan's decease.) 



II. — Journal of a Tour through the Island of Rambree, with a Geologi- 

 cal Sketch of the Country, and Brief Account of the Customs, fyc. of 

 its Inhabitants. By Lieut. Wm. Foley. With a map, Plate iv. 



(Continued from page 39.) 

 January \5th. — It had been my intention to cross over Jeeka, and 

 proceed from thence towards the town of Rambree, through the 

 Northern Hong*. My host of Oogah, and the guides he had furnished 

 me with, were, however, so fearful of accident, and unwilling that I 

 should incur any risk by passing over this wild and almost inaccessible 

 part of the island, that I abandoned the design, and consented to be 

 taken along the sea-shore to the south-west of the mountain, with 

 the view of putting up at Singhunn4the , a village in the Southern Hong. 

 I afterwards discovered that had the day been any other than what it 

 was, (Wednesday,) I might have succeeded in inducing the guides to 

 take me over Mount Jeeka. The Mughs pay a superstitious deference to 

 what are termed the fortunate and unlucky days for any undertaking. 

 Wednesday (Boduh-hoo), happened to be among the latter number. Pya- 

 tho (January), isheld to be a very unfavourable season for building ahouse, 

 and marriages are never celebrated in the monthsf Wajho, Wagoung, 

 Todelin and Tsadinkyot. I left Oogah by the sea- beach, and passing a few 

 sandstone rocks, with an island resembling the knot in appearance and 

 structure, found myself at the foot of Jeeka. Its elevation above the 

 sea is probably as much as 3000 feet ; the very abrupt manner in which 

 it rises above the range with which it is connected, gives it, at a dis- 



* Hong is one of the circles in the island ; there are two Hongs, (North and 

 South.) 

 t July, August, September and October. 



