CONTENTS. 
Voyage from Bombay to Surat — description of the coast — teak tree — 
Surat bar — source of the river — port of Surat — -ancient trade of 
India with Europe — diamond mines and jewels of India — city of 
Surat — bazars — variety of merchandize imported — public buildings 
— castle — European factories — burying-grounds — caravansaries — 
choultries and public zvells — poetical description of oriental benefi- 
cence — gardens at Surat — mode of watering — Mahmud-a-bhaug , 
the nabob's garden , haram — Mogul teamen — Mahomeclan voluptu- 
ousness — quotation from Homer’s garden — hummums , champoing— 
banian hospital — its wards for animals , and peculiar arrangements 
— manufactures — shawls — Cachemire — trade of Surat with Europe 
— visit of the English chief to the nabob — ceremonies , presents — • 
nabob' s public procession to the mosque-— dress of the Mogul ladies 
— veils and embroidery —anecdote of a Mogul widow and an Eng- 
lish gentleman — country , cultivation , kitchen gardens — vegetable 
soap — wood-apple — weavers — game — birds — amadavads — wild 
beasts — hyena— tiger — leopard — cheeta — a cheeta-hunt fully de- 
scribed — porcupines — Pulparra — sacred groves — Hindoo devotees — 
burning of widows — Crest onians by Herodotus — affecting account 
of the immolation of a Hindoo widow — Bernier's description of a 
dreadful scene of that kind — minute division of the Hindoo castes 
— similar to those of the Egyptians — ablutions of the Hindoos — * 
marks of Vishnoo and Seeva — compared with those in scripture- 
travels of Hindoo devotees • — death ofCalanus, burning of an Indian 
woman in the army of Eumenes. 
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