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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