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Picture and the Celestials—Pattū—Execution of Twenty-five Thugs—Cholera—The
Effect on the Insane—The Arabian Leprosy—Elephantiasis—Asylums
for the Blind and for Lepers—Lachhmī, the Goddess of
Prosperity—Intense Heat—Early Rising—Danger of a Thermantidote—List
of Servants 196


CHAPTER XX.

SCENES AT ALLAHABAD—PILGRIMAGE TO THE TRIVENI.

1831, July.

The old Brahman—The Triveni—The Achivut—The Pātal Pooree—Temples
of Bhardoajmun—Radha Krishn[)u]—Hindoo Oath—The Tulsī—The
Peepul-tree—Skeleton Leaves—Lamps in the Air—Paintings
on Ubruk—Impressions on Leaves and Flowers—The Mootee Musjid—The
Crows a Pest—Byā Birds—Haymaking—The Silver Tankard—An
Earthquake—Transferring Diseases to Flowers—Perjury—Farming
Operations—Oats—Bhoodder Ram the Dwarf—The Camel—The
Powder Works and Rocket Manufactory 212


CHAPTER XXI.

LIFE IN THE ZENANA.

1832, February.

Devotees at the Great Fair—Wild Ducks—Quail Shooting—Price of
English Hounds—Colonel Gardner—Life in the Zenāna—The Grass
Cutter—Dūb Grass—The Gram-grinder—The Chakkī—Jack Fruit—-Duty
of a Sā'īs—Arrangement of a Turban—The young Princes of
Lucnow—Archery—Indian Bows and Arrows—Whistling Arrows—The
Bows, Arrows, and War Hatchet of the Coles—The Pellet Bow—Witchcraft
practised with a charmed Bow 227


CHAPTER XXII.

ADVENTURES IN THE EAST.

1832, May.

Gaiety of Allahabad—Lucnow Chetnee—Tails of the Yāk—Horn of the
Unicorn—The Looking-glass Shawl—The First Flight of Locusts—An
Adventure—The Rats' Granary—Balls—Profiles—The Leaf Grasshopper—Appointed
to Allahabad—Ramohun Roy—The Bottle of
Horrors—Narrative of a Thug—The Quicksand—Meteors and Falling
Stars—Hanging oneself for spite—The Sipahī Guard—The Ghurī—The
Sitar—The Ektara—The Gynee Club—Soonghees—Colonel
Gardner 238