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Rh chewing betel, and moking tobacco, avoiding every kind of amuement, and pending the time; in prayer, and the perfomance of charitable offices. They are o extremlely tenacious of their principles that even under the painful longing of execeive thirt, they will not tate a drop of water, each day, till even in the evening. As an intance of their everity in the obervance of their religious tenets, I hall introduce the following real anecdote. A coniderable Banyan merchant was on his pallage from Bombay to Surat, in an Englih hip, and having made uch a proviion of water in'veels under his own eal, as might erve for that hort voyage, which was commonly ted