PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OE BENGAL, 



For March, 1868. 



A Monthly General Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday, 

 the 4th Instant, at 9 p.m. 



E. C. Bayley, Esq., in the chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The receipt of the following presentations was announced. 



1. From W. Butliclge, Esq., Two Specimens of Llama glauca. 



2. From Babu Harachandra Chaturdhurina, Zemindar of Mymen- 

 sing ; A stone slab bearing an Arabic inscription, found in his zemin- 

 dary, Sherepore. 



3. From Babu Gauricharana Baya. A specimen of Strix Indica. 



4. From the Bev. F. F. Mazuchelli. An iron human cage. 

 The following letter from Mr. Mazuchelli, describes this donation. 

 My dear Grote, — I write to enquire whether the Asiatic Society 



would care to possess an old relic, in the shape of a human iron cage, 

 discovered by me under a tree, at Furreedpore, and taken away with the 

 permission of the Magistrate of that place. The cage is in a good state 

 of preservation, but it has lost one arm. I have gathered all the 

 information I could respecting the same, viz, — one authority tells me 

 that dacoits, when caught, years ago, (say some 60 or 70 since,) 

 between Dacca and Calcutta, were put alive in this cage and exposed 

 to the air to die of hunger, as a lesson to others. Another authority 

 tells me that the culprit was hung first and then put into the cage, 

 and the cage hung up to a tree to deter others. But what seems to 

 me the most probable story is, that under the Nizamat (the criminal 



