Macrobius, his opinion of the soul, iii. 261.

Madeira island, i. 8.

Madras, Patana, purchased by the India Company on the Coromandel coast, iv. 282.
Maha Deva, the great god of the Hindoos, iii. 443.
Mahie, a French settlement on the Malabar coast,

i. 321.

Mahdarow, peshwa of the Mahrattas, i. 470; his eventful reign, 471; his character
and concluding scene with his successor and his wife, 472; death, 472; sacrifice
of his widow described, 472.

Mahmah Doocree, cruel treatment of her son at Dhuboy, ii. 337; her revenge on that
city, 338; ordeal trial at her tomb, 338.

Mahmood Sultaun, his conquest, plunder, and cruelty in Hindostan, iii. 142.
Mahmud-a-bhaug, palace and gardens at Surat, i. 252.

Mahomed, the Arabian prophet, i. 93; his character further illustrated, iv. 195.
Mahomedans invade Hindostan, i. 89; their characters, dress, manners, and customs,

i. 94; behaviour of those in high life, i. 102; seclusion of their women, i. 103;
conduct of men in power, 220; cruel and intolerant zeal, ii. 316; venerable patri-
arch at Ram-Rajah, i. 219.

Mahomedan females at Ahmedabad, iii. 133; their situation illustrated from scripture,
133; Koran admits of their having souls, 269; their allotment in Mahomed's
paradise, 269; general character, 329; behaviour at a funeral, 379.
Mahomedan literature, state of in India, iii. 413.

Mahomedan paradise, its sensuality, i. 93.

Mahomed Cossim, his cruel punishment, iii. 387.

Mahomed Khan, letter from, iii. 359.

Mahomed Shah, emperor of Hindostan, i. 464.
Mahrat, name of a province in India, i. 460.

Mahrattas, their origin and name, i. 461; Sevajee, the first rajah, 461; their warlike
character, 463; astonishing rise as an empire, 463; great increase of their army,
463; their peshwas in succession, i. 480; commencement of the civil wars, 480;
their situation as a caste among the Hindoos, ii. 51; women, cattle, and military
life, ii. 52; hardiness in war, ii. 131; pitched battles, ii. 154.

Mahratta army, completely described by Sir Charles Malet, ii. 143, &c.
Mahratta camp, tents, weapons of war, armour, &c. &c. described, ii. 146.

Malabar, first view of the coast, i. 12.; its proper boundaries, i. 294; voyage on that
coast delightful, 335; natural history of Malabar, 347, &c.

Malabar manuscripts on olas, i. 391.

Malabars of Travencore, their general character, i. 378; their houses, gardens, culti-
vation and crops, i. 394; punishment of criminals, i. 394.

Malet, Sir Charles, his account of the temples at Ellora, i. 442.

Malet, Sir Charles, his complete description of the Mahratta army, ii. 143.
prevents a Hindoo widow from burning, ii. 394.

ii. 481.

his account of a musical entertainment for antelopes at Poonah,

his discovery of lions in Guzerat, iii. 91.

... his account of Aurungabad, iii. 105.

his appointment to the court of Mhadajee Sindia, iii. 460, 461, &c.
his supervision, amplification, and general improvement of Mr.

Cruso's account of the embassy, iii. 460.

departure from Bombay and Surat on the embassy, iii. 462.
his interview at Brodera with Futty Sihng, iii. 474.

visit to the rajah of Barcah, iii. 479.

reception at Sindia's capital, Oojen, iii. 487.

arrangements for the first meeting with Mhadajee Sindia, iv. 47.
... his reception by that chieftain, iv. 49, and introduction to Shah
Allum, emperor of Delhi, iv. 53.

iv. 55.

honours and titles of nobility conferred on him by the emperor,

visits Delhi, 59; returns to Agra, and proceeds to Calcutta, 68.
Malow, romantic masses of rocks, iii. 476.

Malwa, fertility of that province, iv. 21; further account of the country, iv. 189.
Man, his character by nature, iv. 333; renewed, iv. 334.

Mandwa, a fortress of the Gracias taken by the English, iii. 218.

Mango, tree and fruit described, i. 30; their great size at Agra, and abundance in
Guzerat, ii. 140.

Mango topes, or orchards in Hindostan, iii. 55; marriage of the tope and well, iii. 56.
Mangulore town and river described, i. 310.

Mantra, an imprecatory incantation by brahmins, iii. 369.

Manufactures, simplicity of, in India, ii. 223. 502.

Manure, variety used in Hindostan, iii. 96.

Marawars, heroism of a female, i. 382.

Mar Dionysius, amiable character of that bishop of the Syrian churches in Malabar,
i. 409.

Maria, lines on a young lady, written at Tellicherry, iv. 203.

Mariatalee, goddess of the poor Hindoo castes, ii. 204.

Marre, a Mahratta town in the Concan, i. 200; excavated mountain at Marre, i. 201.

Marriage ceremony among the Hindoos, iii. 382; reflections on their immature mar-

riages, iii. 302.

Martina, a celebrated sorceress at Antioch, iii. 228.

Massagetæ, their singular customs, ii. 506.

Massaul, an Indian torch, ii. 417.

Massaulchee, a torch-bearer, ii. 417; illustrative of the parable of the ten virgins,
ii. 417.

Mausoleums, magnificent, near Cambay, ii. 18; grand tombs at Betwah, iii. 101.
Maw Mirza Khan, commander of Tippoo Sultaun's forces against Onore, iv. 122;
his visit on board an English ship, iv. 164; his conduct respecting some brah-
mins, iv. 165.

Mayo, one of the Cape de Verd islands, i. 5.

Meah-Gaum Rajah, his amiable character, iii. 322; compared with Job, 322; his
oppressive treatment by Futty Sihng, 469.

Mecca, pilgrimage thither, ii. 509.

Medicine, practice of by the natives in India, iii. 429.

Medusa, Portugueze man of war, ii. 200.

Mehd Aalea, reposing in heaven, iv. 40.
Melinda, on the coast of Africa, ii. 165.

Melodies, Hindoo, iii. 298.

Men twice-born, their high qualifications among the Hindoos, iv. 313.

Mendicants, character of Hindoo fakeers and beggars, ii. 466; manner of dispersing

them from Bombay, 467.

Menianthes, beautiful, in the Guzerat lakes, iii. 314.

Menu, the great Hindoo lawgiver, iii. 17; preliminary discourse to his Institutes, iii. 17.
Merdi Coura, Indian anthropophagi, ii. 105.

Mermaids, on the coast of Africa, ii. 164.

Metempsychosis, Hindoo belief of that system, i. 64.
Metrahnees, women employed in hospitality, iv. 314.
Mhadajee Sindia, a Mharatta chieftain, iii. 347.

his father's family, and his illegitimate birth, iii. 350.
........ elevated to the jaghire of his family by Mahderow, iii. 354.
elected mediator of a peace between the English and Mahrattas,

iii. 355.

....

city and purgunna of Baroche given him for that service, iii. 355.
his reception of the British embassy, iv. 50.

deception and meanness of his presents on that occasion, iv. 50.

Mhadavi, Ipomea, a beautiful flower, i. 31.

Mhadu Gurr, a fortress in Malwa, iv. 5.

Mia Tousaine, wonderful effects from his music, iii. 296.

Microscope, singular anecdote of one destroyed by a brahmin, ii. 468.

Minarets, marking the distance between Agra and Delhi, iv. 60.

Minutedars in the revenue department in India, ii. 419.

Mirjee, or Mirzee, near Onore, the ancient Musiris, i. 304; further account of,

iv. 109.

Mirza, a preacher of Christianity in Persia, iv. 326.

Mirza Mehady, letter from, on vaccination, iii. 425.

Mirza Zummum, vizier at Cambay, entertainment by him, iii. 30; cruelly treated by
the nabob, iii. 165; pathetic letter from him, iii. 165.

Missionaries, Bernier's account of the Romish missionaries in India, ii. 307; reflec-

tions on that subject, iii. 39; letter to protestant missionaries, iii. 40.

Mococ, beautiful animal from Madagascar, ii. 183.

Moctader, his surprizing wealth and luxury, iv. 197.

Modern philosophy, its fatal consequences in India, iii. 15; exemplified, ibid.

Moghlani, female Mogul at Hydrabad, iii. 391.

Moguls, Mogul Tartars, conquerors of India, iii. 145.

Mogul lady; a beauty at Surat described, i. 262.

Mogul sovereigns of Hindostan, i. 90; splendor of their court, i. 90; subversion of
the empire and cruel treatment of Shah Aalum, i. 465; encouragers of art,
science, and literature, iii. 144.

Mogul widow, anecdote of, i. 266.

Molangies, in the Sunderbunds at Bengal, i. 367.

Montaz al Zumani, iv. 40.

Mongheer, iv. 91.

Mongoose, or ichneumon of Malabar, i. 358; combat with serpents in Guzerat,
ii. 248.

Monkeys, in India, ingenuity of those at Cubbeer-Burr, i. 27; affecting anecdote of
a monkey, ibid.; numerous at Cambay, ii. 18; monkeys at the Cape of Good
Hope, ii. 132; their cunning in Turcaseer woods, ii. 272; laughable anecdote at
Dhuboy, ii. 297; employed there as instruments of revenge, ii. 298; the brah-
mins' request concerning those at Dhuboy, ii. 308; preyed upon by tigers, ii. 484.
Monsoon, south-west on the Malabar coast, i. 340; dreadful effects of its setting in
at an encampment in Guzerat, ii. 119; its sublimity illustrated from Job, ii. 300.
Montesquieu on despotism, iii. 153.

Mooperal brahmin, his letter to Dr. Anderson on vaccination, iii. 423.

Moor-punkees, peacock-boats, iv. 97.

Moorshedabad, ancient capital of Bengal, iv. 96.

Mootee-jil, lake of pearls, iv. 96.

Moplahs, Mahomedan Malabars, i. 391; their cruelty at Attinga, i. 403.

Morasu, extraordinary custom of their women, iii. 29.

Morning in India, beauty of an early walk, ii. 401.

Mortality in India, iv. 211; reflections, ibid.; Captain Williamson's remark, 212;

causes of in India, 213; two anecdotes in consequence, 215; verses on that sub-
ject, 317.

Mort-de-Chien, dreadful effects of that disorder in India, iv. 132.

Mosaical law on slavery, iii. 172.

Mostanser Billah, caliph of Bagdad, anecdote, ii. 23.

Mountain goat of Turcaseer, ii. 281.

Mourners for the dead hired in India, iii. 252; compared with ancient customs, iii.

270; further particulars, iii. 379.

Mowa tree, its valuable produce, ii. 451.

Mucunda, an extraordinary brahmin, iii. 149; re-appears in the body of Akber,
iii. 150.

Mucwas, or Mucwars, in Malabar, i. 320.

Mulberries, of three kinds in Guzerat, iii. 276.

Murder, one very extraordinary at Bombay, ii. 262; of a young beauty near Bro-
dera, ii. 486; partiality of its punishment in Menu's laws, iii. 316.
Muscovy drake, swallows a large serpent, iii. 337.

Music, its power over serpents, antelopes, nightingales, and other parts of the ani-
mal creation, ii. 483; greatly encouraged by Akber, iii. 294; oriental music
estimated by Sir William Jones, iii. 295; account of it by Sir William Ouseley,

ibid.

Musiris of the ancient Greeks, Mirzee, i. 304.

Musk rat in India, i. 41.

Mutt, grain for cattle in Guzerat, ii. 407.

Muttrah, encampment of Mhadajee Sindia, near Agra, iv. 50.

Myhi river, beauty of that river near the pass of Fazal-poor, ii. 101; further account

of the Myhi river, iii. 68; its source at Chumpapoora, iii. 483; beautiful cascade,
iii. 484.

Mynah, talking bird in India, i. 47.

Myrtle, poetical address to, iii. 178; Kessai's wise application of its leaf, iii. 179.
Mystics, among the Persians and Hindoos, ii. 323.

Naaman, his ablution illustrated, iii. 184.

Nabob of Surat, ceremonies at a public visit in his durbar, i. 259; his splendid pro-
cession to the grand mosque, i. 260.

Nadir Shah, his character given by himself, i. 465.
Naga, curious anecdote of a Naga serpent, ii. 388.
Naiad, verses to Medhumad'ha, ii. 242.

Naik Gopal, wonderful effect of his music, iii. 297.

Nair, a high caste in Malabar, i. 377, 385; extraordinary customs of that tribe, i.
385; particulars from Dr. Buchanan, i. 387.

Nair women, allowed a plurality of husbands, i. 385; causes assigned by Montes-
quieu, i. 386, some peculiar customs among them, i. 388.

Nambouris, a caste in Malabar, i. 389.

Narayena, the Spirit of God, i. 436; sublime hymn to Narayena, translated by Sir
William Jones, i. 436.