Stranglers, extraordinary robbers and murderers, iv. 13. Sucking-fish, Remora, i. 9. Suculterah, a sacred spot on the Nerbudda, ii. 234. Sudra, dreadfully punished for reading the Vedas, ii. 25. Sufter Jung, his noble palace at Delhi, iv. 63. Sugar-cane, its culture in Guzerat, ii. 410. Suicide, singular attempt at Dhuboy, ii. 364. difficulty of preventing young widows from committing it at Dhuboy, ii. Sujaat Caun, his beautiful mosque, iii. 125. Sujeutra, appropriated to dancing girls, iii. 95. Sunderbunds in Bengal, i. 367. Superstition, its astonishing effects on the Hindoos, ii. 519. Supper; the great supper in scripture illustrated, iii. 187. Surat, voyage from Bombay thither, i. 243. Its appearance from the Tappee river, Surfojee, rajah of Tanjore, his amiable character, iii. 427. His letter on anatomy, Suttee, a Hindoo widow reclaimed from burning, ii. 394. Swampaca, cruel laws against them, iv. 313. Swartz, the pious missionary of Mysore, iii. 39; iv. 326. Sweta Dwipa, Hindoo sacred isles of the west, iii. 73. Swingers, extraordinary fanatics in India, i. 203. Sword, the fact of the Hindoo jugglers swallowing one clearly proved, iii. 515. Syrup of roses, violets, and jessamin, ii. 228. Tacitus, his account of poisons, iii. 384. Tailor-bird in Bombay, i. 49. Taje Mahal, at Agra, iii. 107. Further description, iv. 39. Tali renders a Hindoo marriage indissoluble, iii. 303. Talismans, oriental amulets and charms, i. 93. Further particulars, iii. 390. Talismanic ring, anecdote of, i. 93. Tamarind tree, its shade unhealthy, ii. 33, Tamburans in Malabar, i. 416. Tamburetti, high caste of Malabar females, i. 416. Tamerlane, or Timurlung, his conquests and cruelties, iii. 145. His real character, Tamrapura, copper city near Cambay, iii. 71. Tannah fort, on Salsette, conquered by the English, i. 452. Improvements at Tan- Tansein, a celebrated musician, iv. 32; his tomb at Gwalier, ibid. His wonderful Tappee, or Tapti, river at Surat, i. 244. Tarakaw, human sacrifice among the Bhauts, ii. 91. Tarakee, wonderful penances of Hindoo fanatics, ii. 232. Taree, or Toddy, palm wine, i. 24. Tatianus, his opinion of the soul, iii. 261. Tattah, a city on the Indus, i. 429; cruelty there, ibid. Tatties, screens made of grass for coolness, iii. 66. Their great alleviation of heat, iv. 11. Tattoos, small Mahratta horses, ii. 150. Tcheruns, singular cast of robbers in Guzerat, ii. 106. Teak-tree and timber described, i. 241. Abundant in Malabar, i. 326. Teekum, river in Malwa, iv. 11. Teignmouth, lord, his opinion of the Indians, iv. 308. His excellent administration in India, iv. 288; his remarks on Sir William Jones, 320. Tekel, application of its mysterious import, iii. 34. Telinga brahmins, extraordinary instance of their cruelty, at Poonah, ii. 135. Natural history, iv. 182. Particular account of Tellicherry briefly described, i. 14. Natural history, iv. 182. that settlement, i. 315. Tellowgaum, treaty of, iv. 222. Tempest in Guzerat, ii. 126. Sublimely described, iv. 267. Temple of Fountains at Cambay, iii. 172. Teneriffe, peak of, i. 5. Tennant, Dr. his character of the Hindoos, iii. 318. Tents, magnificent, in India, ii. 44; 141. Travelling tents and encampment, iii. 66. Terra Japonica, Japan earth, how manufactured, i. 304. Thaen Tellow, dreadful scene at that village, ii. 119. Thibet cow, beauty of its tail for chouries, iii. 82. Thirst, its dreadful effects in India, ii. 34, 130. Tiagura of Ptolemy, modern powaghur, ii. 300. Tiger, escape from, in the Concan, i. 197. Anecdotes of tigers on Salsette, i. 428. monkeys, for food, ii. 484. Affecting anecdote of a widow and dead tiger, ii. Tiger hunt described, ii. 489. Tiger mountain, in Guzerat, ii. 281. Tiger, mechanically constructed by Tippoo Sultaun, iv. 184. Tigers, four royal, to guard Tippoo's chamber, iv. 200. Tiger throne, in the durbar of Hyder Ally and Tippoo Sultaun, described, iv. 190. Tivees, a cast of Malabars in Travencore, i. 390. Tobacco, in Guzerat, ii. 48. Toddy, taree, liquor from the cocoa-nut-tree, i. 24. Tooteh, a bird at Surat, i. 270. Torriano, major, appointed to the command of Onore fort, iv. 111. His gallant de- Townson, Dr. his amiable character, ii. 379. Letter to him from Lord North, ii. Travelling in the Guzerat purgunna, ii. 458. Hospitality and accommodation of the Travencore, natural history of that kingdom, i. 347. Its beautiful country and ex- Travencore, king, his character and conduct, i. 383; no written laws, 384; mono- Treasure, concealed in India, ii. 383; practised by the ancients, 384; extraordinary Trees, venerated by many nations, ii. 361. Triad deity of the Hindoos, i. 430. Sculptured at the Elephanta, of a colossal size, Trials by ordeal, at Baroche, ii. 245. Different ordeals practised, ii. 245. Triballes, necromancers, and heart-eaters, ii. 522. Tuar-dholl, a valuable pulse in Guzerat, ii. 407. Tuckarea, a village of Borahs, iii. 468. Tulava, a tribe of Hindoos, near Mangulore, i. 315. Tulsee, ocymum, a sacred Hindoo plant, ii. 306. Turcaseer, shooting party in that district, ii. 271. Turmeric, a useful plant in Guzerat, ii. 409. Turrana, in Malwa, iv. 9. Tusculan villa of Pliny compared with the Indian garden-houses at Surat, iii. 407. Twice-born men, a high caste of brahmins, iv. 313. Udiamper, head of the Syrian churches in Malabar, once the seat of regal dignity, Ujen, Oojen, the capital of Malwa, iv. 5. Underwood, Mr. John, his account of the medicinal practice among the natives in Unguents and philtres used in India, iii. 237. Unicorn, the rhinoceros, ii. 182. Illustrated from the scriptural account in Job, Ustom, a village in the Concan, i. 211. Vaccination, its happy effects in India, iii. 423: proved in many instances, 424; not Vajeefa lands, in Guzerat, ii. 416. Valatta emlee, adansonia, iv. 84. Valentia, lord, his remarks on Hindoo conversion and European manners in India, Vanjarras, merchants in India, their inland trade, iii. 253. Laws and regulations of Vapura, on the Malabar coast, i. 326. Vastu Puja, Hindoo festival, iii. 76. Vazarabhy, hot-wells in the Concan, iv. 247; their extreme heat, 251; waters ana- Vazeer Ally, magnificent nuptials, iii. 280. Vazeria, a Gracia district in Guzerat, iii. 219. Correspondence with the chieftain, iii. 219. Vedas, account of those sacred books, i. 124. Velatee, iron forges in Malabar, i. 366. Veloria, a Gracia town, in Guzerat, iii. 213. Venus, the Paphian Venus, a shapeless stone, ii. 513. Vernal morning in India, poetical effusion, iii. 174. Verses under an urn, at Baroche, ii. 242. Verses on leaving Dhuboy, iii. 372. ...... on Vezelpoor village and gardens, iii. 466. .... on finally leaving India, iv. 217. Vezelpoor, village in Guzerat, ii. 239. subsequent desolation, iii. 464. Villa and gardens described, ii. 240. Their Victims, human, formerly sacrificed to the Hindoo deities, iv. 310. Victoria Fort, particulars of the country and inhabitants in that part of the Concan, Victory, Horn of Victory, a title in India, iii. 278. Villages in Guzerat, described, ii. 413. Appropriation of their produce, ii. 416. Vingorla, a seaport near Goa, i. 293. Viziapoor, geography of its coast, i. 294. Voltaire, fatal effects of his philosophy in India, iii. 184. Vultures, i. 47; i. 112. Wages, cheap price of labour in India, ii. 252. War, reflections on, iv. 129. Warriors, Indian, their wonderful exploits, ii. 43. Their comparative excellence, ii. 45. Wartruc, a river in Guzerat, ii. 74. Washermen, publicly provided for in Guzerat, ii. 418. Washing in India, ii. 418. Water, scarcity of, in the Concan, i. 215, A great luxury in the hot winds, ii. 30. Water Melons, their excellence at Baroche, ii. 225. Water snakes, on the Malabar coast, i. 325. Seldom venomous, iii. 336. Water-spout, described, i. 310. Watson, bishop, his opinion respecting the natives of India, i. 142. Wedded Banian tree, ii. 453. Wells, great charity in making them in India, i. 215. Marriage of a well to a mango. Wellesley, marquis, honourable testimony of his administration in India, iv. 285. |