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close to them, so as to insure a sufficient supply of water, 

 and of easy access to all classes, including the women and 

 the children. 



The water for drinking, cooking, bathing, washing utensils, 

 and the married families, is brought by Puckallies, of which 

 sixteen are allowed to the Regiment, and each is calculated 

 by the Quarter-Master to bring 160 gallons daily, a quantity 

 we should say in a hot climate, quite inadequate to the con- 

 sumption of 721 men, 137 women, 181 children, and such 

 of the followers as are employed within the Barrack Square, 

 for all the purposes of domestic economy and cleanliness. 



Barrack Furniture. 



In England. 





In India. 





Tables and Forms. 



1 Cot, or bedstead for each 

 Man, consisting of 3 teak 

 boards placed upon 2 tres- 

 tles of the same wood. 



1 Iron pot and lid, 



1 Trivet, 



2 Pot hooks, 

 1 Iron ladle, 



1 Flesh fork, 



2 Meat dishes, 

 2 Water cans, 



1 Bason, 

 1 Plate, 



The foregoing contrast will shew the relative situation of 

 the soldier at home and within the Tropics at Bangalore. 



Those trestles or bedsteads are so infested with bugs, that 

 we should recommend iron cots to be substituted ; these 

 bedsteads are placed in pairs, quite close to each other, with- 

 out any intervening space ; at the distance of 6 feet are two 

 more, with a window or a door intervening. 



The soldier has no bedding, he has merely a cotton quilt 

 renewed every two years, which serves the double purpose 

 of bed and covering. It is totally inadequate either for 

 comfort or for health ; he has no means of change, and conse- 

 quently no means of promoting cleanliness ; and as a soldier 

 is often covered with perspiration and dirt from the very 

 nature of his duties, it may well be imagined what their state 

 must be in a hot climate, at the end of two years, saturated 

 as they must be with filth and sordes. 



