CONTENTS. 
Division of the Malabcirs into four principal tribes — many inferior 
castes — brahmins of Malabar; religious and secular employments 
— sacred rivers of India — veneration for the cow — public charities 
— . similarity of the Malabars and northern Hindoos — negative cha- 
racter — extraordinary purification of the Icing ofTravencore passing 
through a golden cow — the same ceremony by Iiagobah — purifica- 
tion of his brahmin ambassadors— Sevajee weighed against gold — - 
superstitious veneration of the Malabar brahmins — religious pride 
—singular adventure in Quilone forest— civilization of the Mala- 
bars — physical effects of the torrid zone — listless indolence of the 
natives — conduct of a Morawar heroine — dominions of the king of 
Travencore — his capital — military force — bravery of the Nairs— 
heir to the throne of Travencore — dress of the king — - — suspicion 
of the natives — manners and customs— tribe of Nairs ; extraordi- 
nary marriages , mode of inheritance — reasons assigned for a plu- 
rality of husbands — singularities of the Nairs — Ncimburis — Tivees 
—dress of the men and women — large ear-rings — Tetees — Moplah 
women — cruelty of the queen of Attinga — writing on olas — Mala- 
bar Christians— famine — slavery — cheap purchase of children — 
anecdote of a fish-woman — houses of the Malabars— furniture — 
implements of Agriculture — tribe of Pooleahs — their wretched de- 
gradation, and miserable situation — Par iars, a caste still more de- 
graded— Dr . Robertson’s account of the Pariars — excommunica- 
tion, or loss of caste, dreadful to a Hindoo — purport of the cruel 
sentence— comparison between the Hindoos and Egyptians — many 
