INDEX.

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A.
Aboo, tomb of, vol. ii. [223].
Abrus precatorius, i. [315].
Acacia Arabica, i. [221]; ii. [74].
Achibut chamber, i. [213].
⸺, sacred, i. [214].
Adansonia digitata, i. [116-118], [225].
Æschynomene grandiflora, i. [316].
⸺ paludosa, i. [286].
Āghā Meer, i. [165].
Agra, great gun at, i. [276].
Akbar Shāh, tomb of, at Secundra, i. [374].
Albatross, i. [8], [9]; ii. [354].
Ali Merdan Khan, palace of, ii. [218].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, his canal of paradise, ii. [194].
Allahabad, arrival at, i. [71].
⸺, residence at, i. [77].
⸺, sātī at, i. [91].
⸺, temple of Bhawānī at, i. [95].
⸺, pillar in the fort at, i. [309]; ii. [295], [468].
⸺, city of, i. [309].
⸺, garden, caravan-sarā’e, and great well at, ii. [465-467].
Alligarh, fortress of, ii. [187].
Alligators, tame, ii. [88].
⸺ in their own wildernesses, i. [328].
Alms, necessity of giving, i. [465], [466].
Amaranthus Gangeticus, i. [314], [315].
⸺ Tricolor, i. [314].
Amazonian Mahratta lady, ii. [54], [55].
Amherst, Lord, i. [58].
Andaman Islands, i. [18]; ii. [476].
Anna, Purna-Devi, ii. [179].
Ants, strange notion of the Muhammadans respecting, i. [314].
⸺, white, i. [145], [146], [312], [313].
Arwarī fish, i. [393]; ii. [182], [295].
Apathy of the natives, i. [296].
Appa Sāhib, his six wives, ii. [9].
Archer, Lord, i. [58].
Architect of the gods, ii. [64].
Arrak, i. [147], [148].
Arrows, poisoned, ii. [73-76], [366].
⸺, whistling, i. [235].
⸺ of the Coles, i. [236].
⸺, Persian and Arabian, ii. [41].
Artocarpus integrifolia, i. [233].
Arzumund Bānū, account of, i. [350], [351].
Asclepias gigantea, i. [275].
⸺ rosea, i. [311].
Asiatic Society of Calcutta, ii. [105].
Asoca, a shrub sacred to Mahadēo, ii. [175].
Assam leaf insect, ii. [104].
Auckland, Lord, arrival of, at Allahabad, ii. [137].
⸺, Lord, and the Misses Eden visit the ex-Queen of Gwalior, ii. [137], [138].
Avatars, the ten, ii. [153-168].
Ayha, revenge of an, i. [137].
⸺ and durwān, i. [142], [143].
B.
Baboo Ramohun Roy, i. [29].
Bāghmars, tiger-killers, ii. [130-133].
Bāgh-sira, i. [290].
Bāiza Bā’ī, her Highness the, ii. [2-9], [22], [32-39], [43-52], [54-56], [61-63], [109-113], [116-118], [135-138], [291-293], [296], [342-344], [465].
Balaiyā lenā, ceremony of, ii. [110].
Bandarponch, the mountain, ii. [265-269].
Banglā of the pilgrim, view from the, ii. [237].
Barāh or Varāha, the third avatar, ii. [156].
Barkandāz, i. [67], [135], [299].
Barrackpūr, i. [38]; ii. [101].
Basil.—See [Tulsī].
Bassia longifolia, i. [122].
Baths, steam, i. [86], [100], [368], [419].
Bauhinia scandens, ii. [77], [78].
Bazār, Barā, i. [57].
Beauty, female, notions of, entertained by the natives of India, i. [385].
Beetle-wings used in embroidery, i. [67].
Beggars, river, ii. [102].
Ben Oge, ii. [244].
Benares, i. [66-68]; ii. [61], [435], [470].
Bengālī woman, i. [60]; ii. [97].
Berhampūr, ii. [98], [99].
Bhadráj, expedition to the summit of, ii. [248].
Bhadrināth, great peak of, ii. [260], [261].
⸺, town and temple of, ii. [262], [263].
Bhagwān, or Bhawānī, the goddess, ii. [450].
⸺, temple of, ii. [449].
⸺, a form of Dūrgā, ii. [179].
⸺, temple in Alopee Bagh, i. [95], [96].
Bhardoajmun, temples of, i. [216].
Bhoodder Ram, the dwarf, i. [224].
Bhora, a lucky mark, ii. [9].
Bhŭgŭvŭtēē, the cow, a form of Dūrgā, ii. [174].
Bhurtpore, i. [55].
Bihishtī, i. [299].
Biloa, or Malura, a shrub, ii. [175].
Bird-catchers, i. [338].
⸺, Chiri-mārs, peculiar method of snaring their game, ii. [278].
Birds, worshipped by the Hindūs, ii. [328].
⸺, springes for, i. [338].
⸺, Indian, ii. [232], [234].
Blundell, Major, death of, ii. [235].
Board of works, i. [111-114].
Bojesmāns, ii. [360], [362].
Bombax ceiba, i. [341].
Booteah Chharrā, used as shot, ii. [255].
⸺, probable origin of, ii. [255], [256].
Borassus flabelliformis, ii. [69].
Bore, the, ii. [391].
Boundaries, how determined in the Hills, ii. [275].
Bow, charmed, i. [237].
⸺, pellet, i. [236], [237], [312].
⸺ of the Coles, i. [236].
⸺, a, reversed, i. [297].
⸺ of the Hill-men, ii. [76], [77].
⸺, the spring, ii. [73].
Bower, of the pilgrim, i. [310-312].
Bracelet-bound brother and sister, ii. [117], [118].
Brahma, the creator, ii. [149-151].
⸺, the first personage of the Hindū triad, ii. [149].
Brahmanī bull, i. [66]; ii. [427].
⸺ ducks (anas cæsarca), i. [341]; ii. [80], [417].
Brahmanical thread, i. [304], [305].
Bricks, ancient, ii. [88].
Britons, ancient, resemblance between them and the Hindūs, i. [218]; ii. [259].
Brŭmhū, or Brahm, the one god without a second, ii. [148], [149].
Buddha, history of, the ninth avatar, ii. [162-168].
Buffaloes, curious manner of crossing rivers, i. [161].
Bulliah, the fair at, ii. [67], [413].
Bunce, little Jack, i. [118], [222].
Būndelā, children, sale of, ii. [294], [295].
Bungalow, or banglā, i. [137].
Burāt, the day of, i. [437-446].
Burtreenath, the god, his residence, ii. [61].
Butea frondosa, i. [309].
⸺ superba, i. [310].
Buxar, the stud at, ii. [67].
By’ā birds, i. [220], [221]; ii. [74].
Byragies, i. [256].
C.
Cachnár, ii. [77], [78].
Cairipūr, ruins of an ancient fort near, i. [38].
Calcutta, i. [20], [21].
Camel, how to dress a, ii. [36].
⸺, curious method of stealing a, ii. [192].
⸺ battery, Major Pew’s, ii. [299], [300].
⸺ camelus bactrianus, i. [224].
Cape hen, battle of one with a terrier, i. [10].
Carāites, hymn of the, i. [269], [270].
Carnicobar, i. [14-18].
Casowtee stone, ii. [88], [89].
Cassia fistula, i. [317].
Cawnpore, i. [121].
Chak-chakkī wālās, i. [299].
Chakwā.—See [Brahmanī Ducks].
Champa, i. [274].
Chandar-nagar, ii. [100].
Chāotree, i. [447].
Chapel at Pennycross, ii. [341].
Chārpāī, description of, i. [387].
Chaunrīs, i. [239].
Cheetā hunting, i. [398], [399].
Chinsurah, ii. [100].
Chiraghdanīs, ii. [62].
Chitpore, corn-mills at, ii. [101].
Cholera, dread of, entertained by the natives, ii. [253].
⸺, insanity cured by the fear of, i. [202].
⸺, remarkable method of frightening it away, i. [281].
Chounsah, its murda-ghāt, or place for burning the dead, ii. [66], [67].
Chowringhee, i. [20].
Christians, native, i. [175]; ii. [293-295], [288].
Christmas, presents at, i. [120], [171].
Churīs, or bracelets, i. [388]; ii. [308].
Chŭrŭk Pūja, i. [26-28].
Cicalas, ii. [236], [237].
Cintra oranges, ii. [99].
Cloud-end, ii. [231].
Cocky-olli bird purchased by the pilgrim, ii. [142].
Coins, Assam, ii. [14], [15].
⸺, ancient, found at Kannouj, ii. [29], [30].
⸺ ⸺, of Secunder-al-Sānī, i. [133].
⸺, Putlī, ii. [55], [56].
⸺ ⸺, conjectured to be Venetian, ii. [55].
Coles, the bow and quiver of the, i. [236].
⸺, war hatchet of the, [ib.]
Colgong, rocks of, ii. [71], [72].
Combermere, Lord, i. [75].
Commission, curious, given to the pilgrim by the Bāiza Bā’ī, ii. [291], [292].
Constantia wine, why so expensive, ii. [312].
Conway, inscription on a tombstone in the church of, ii. [336].
Coodseah Begam, garden of, ii. [218].
Cornwallis, Marquis, his tomb, ii. [65].
Coronation of the king of Oude, anniversary of the, i. [87-90].
Corpses, Hindū, horrible appearance of, in the river, i. [167].
Corruption of words by the natives, i. [278].
Cotton plant, i. [341].
⸺, Bourbon, [ib.]
⸺ tree, [ib.]
⸺ seed, i. [58].
Cow, the, a form of Dūrgā or Bhawānī, i. [157], [158].
⸺ tails, i. [238], [239].
Cows, manner of doing pūja to, i. [307].
Cross, the Southern, ii. [375].
Crossing the line, i. [5].
Crows, whimsical mode of frightening, practised by the natives, i. [220].
Cummer-o’-deen, Cawn, palace of, ii. [218].
Curamnassa river, i. [65].
Cusu or kooshŭ grass, i. [307]; ii. [425].
D.
Dākait, adventures of one at Gaur, ii. [82], [83].
Darah Shekoah, palace of, ii. [218].
Darzī, native tailor, i. [141].
Dasturī, what, i. [22].
Datura, species of, i. [148].
Dead, burning the, i. [167]; ii. [424], [432].
Death, indifference of the Hindoos concerning, i. [331].
Debts, interest on, i. [37].
Deer, mouse, i. [40].
⸺, spotted, [ib.]
Delhi, first view of, very imposing, ii. [192], [193].
⸺, plan of the fort and palace of, ii. [193].
⸺, church at, [ib.]
⸺, the throne of the padshāh, i. [368].
Dēodar oil, ii. [253].
Devi, the goddess, an appellation applied particularly to Dūrga, ii. [177].
Devotee, Indian, singular vow of one, i. [227].
Dewālī, festival of the, i. [162].
Dewtas, or deotās, the mountain spirits of the Himalaya, ii. [268].
Dhrumsālā, description of a, i. [116].
Dhul Dhul, i. [298].
Dil-Kushā, park of, i. [181].
Diseases, native, method of transmitting through flowers, i. [223].
Dishes, ready dressed, i. [65].
Dispute, theological, between a Musalmān and a Hindū, ii. [287], [288].
Dividend, satisfactory, i. [273].
Dīwān-i-am, ii. [217].
Dīwān-i-khāss, [ib.]
Dolīs, for carrying women, ii. [227].
Domnī, i. [426], [427].
Dūb-grass, i. [232].
Ducks, wild, curious method of catching, i. [228].
Dŭkshina-rayŭ, the god, ii. [107].
Dūrga, the goddess, i. [34]; ii. [178].
Dūrga-pūja, i. [34], [35].
Durwān, door-keeper, i. [142].
E.
Earthquake at Prāg, i. [222], [285].
⸺ in the Hills, ii. [240], [244], [248].
⸺ in Assam, ii. [132].
Eating the air, i. [140].
Eclipse of the moon, horror of the natives at, ii. [112].
Eed, festival of the, i. [353].
Egg, mundane, of the Hindoos, ii. [180].
Ektara, musical instrument so called, i. [251].
Elephant Minār, i. [407].
⸺ -fights, i. [176].
⸺, -swimming, an, i. [159]; ii. [68].
Elephantiasis, i. [26].
Etmad-od-Doulah, tomb of, i. [372].
F.
Fakīr near Barrackpore, i. [38].
⸺ at Prāg, his cruel treatment by thieves, i. [306].
⸺’s rock at Janghira, ii. [71].
Fakīrs, their character of dishonesty, i. [64].
⸺, libertinism of, i. [258].
Famine at Kanauj, ii. [144], [145].
Fan palm, ii. [69].
Fane, Sir Henry, arrival of at Allahabad, ii. [60].
Fathīghar, ii. [1].
Fathīpoor Sicri, i. [401].
⸺ ⸺, pilgrimage of Akbar Shāh to, i. [402].
Fevers, Indian, i. [82], [83].
Ficus Indica, i. [214].
Fights, buffalo, i. [178].
⸺, elephant, i. [176].
⸺, horse and tiger, i. [178].
⸺, quail, i. [74], [75].
⸺, ram, i. [178].
⸺, rhinoceros, i. [177].
⸺, tiger, i. [178].
Fish, flying, i. [4]; ii. [491].
⸺, order of the, i. [458], [459].
Foot of a Chinese lady, model of the, ii. [105].
Forgery, i. [145].
Fortune-tellers, precepts of Muhammad concerning, i. [282].
Fox, flying, i. [307].
France, Isle of, i. [138].
⸺ ⸺, visionary old man at, i. [139].
Frazer, murder of Mr. Wm., ii. [50], [51].
⸺, Wm. tomb of, at Delhi, ii. [193].
Frontispiece, description of the, i. [263-266].
Fulbertus Sagittarius, i. [59].
G.
Gaja Rājā Sāhib, ii. [3], [4], [6].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺ performs pūja at the shrine of Mahadēo, ii. [111].
Ganesh, history of, in the [Introduction to Vol. I.]
⸺, description of plate of, i. [263].
⸺ gigantic image of, on the banks of the Ganges, i. [68].
⸺, his battle with Parashu-Rāma, ii. [176].
Ganges, happiness of dying in sight of the, ii. [392].
Gangoutrī, Captain Hodgson’s description of, ii. [264], [265].
⸺, peak of, ii. [244].
Gardner, Colonel, i. [90], [181], [183], [229-231], [251], [408], [418], [420-428].
⸺ ⸺, death of, and of his begam, i. [458].
⸺ ⸺ and his begam, their tombs, ii. [185].
Garuda, the Man-Eagle, or Bird-God, see [Gŭroorŭ], ii. [174].
Gaur, the ruins of, ii. [84-87].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, Chambers’ description of, ii. [89-96].
Gazooddeen Cawn, madrasa, or college of, ii. [219], [220].
Ghāzīpūr, palace of the Nawāb of, ii. [65], [418].
Ghirgit, the, why held accursed by the Muhammedans, i. [300], [301].
Ghurī, description of the, i. [250].
Ghuznee, remains of the ancient city of, ii. [325], [326].
Gillespie, Gen., death of, ii. [242], [248].
Goat, balancing, i. [273].
Goats, Bengālī, i. [77].
⸺, Jumnapar, [ib.]
Goblin, address of a Hindū to a, ii. [12].
Gods, 330,000,000 in the Hindū Pantheon, ii. [147].
⸺, pedigree of the, ii. [148-181].
Gooltura, i. [317].
Goorz, Goorzmar, i. [465].
Gopalŭ, ii. [122].
Gopī Nat’hŭ, [ib.]
Gosain, detection of theft by a, i. [102], [103].
⸺, his temple, i. [104], [105].
Gosseina, i. [193], [194].
Gossypium herbaceum, i. [341].
Govinda, songs of, ii. [116], [117].
Gram-grinder, description of a, i. [232], [233].
Grass-cutter, i. [231].
Grasshoppers, enamelled, i. [275].
Great gun at Agra, account of the, i. [276-278].
Gumuki, i. [267].
Gunduc river, the rapidity of its stream, ii. [68].
Gūnth, or Hill pony, description and character of one, ii. [226].
Gŭroorŭ, the vahan of Vishnŭ, description of, ii. [328].
⸺ invoked by the Hindoos to obtain protection from snakes, ii. [328].
Gynee club, i. [251].
H.
Hæmanthus toxicaria, ii. [366].
Hanasa, the swan, the vahan of Brahma, ii. [174].
Hail, tremendous storm of, i. [291].
Hair, washing the, i. [136].
Hanging one’s self for spite, i. [249].
Harrow boys, i. [53].
Hastings, Lord, death of, i. [71].
Heat, prickly, i. [5].
Heber, Bishop, death of, i. [60].
Hebrew hymn, i. [270].
Hessing, Colonel, tomb of, i. [418].
Hibiscus cannabinus, i. [316].
⸺ Indica, [ib.]
⸺ longifolius, i. [315].
⸺ mutabilis, [ib.]
⸺ sabdariffa, i. [316].
Hill people, ii. [75-77].
Hills on fire, ii. [246].
Himalaya mountains, elevation of, ii. [260-270].
Hindostanī song, i. [133], [134].
Hindū triad, ii. [147].
Hindūs will neither make converts or be converted, ii. [288].
Hoogly river, ii. [102].
⸺ ⸺, introduction of steam boats on the, i. [32].
Hooqŭ cakes, ii. [8].
Horrors, bottle of, i. [243].
Horseradish tree, i. [314].
Horse, Skinner’s, i. [76].
Horses, lucky and unlucky marks on, ii. [9-11].
⸺, native, extremely vicious, ii. [279].
⸺, poisoning of, by the natives, i. [138].
Horses, stud of, marks on, i. [161].
House, pakka, what, i. [137].
Houses, Indian, style of, i. [21].
Hukāk, i. [113].
Humaioon, mausoleum of, at Delhi, ii. [197], [198].
Humming birds, i. [311].
Hŭnoomān, the Monkey-god, account of, i. [109].
⸺, temple of, i. [115].
⸺, his fiery tail, ii. [269].
Hurdwar, ii. [265].
Hyat-ool-Nissa Begam, the pilgrim’s visit to, ii. [213], [214].
Hymn, Hebrew, i. [270].
I. J.
Jagana’th, a form of Krishna, ii. [172].
⸺ made of the vertebra of an animal, i. [262].
⸺, temple of, ii. [381].
⸺, the idol, ii. [384].
⸺, the swing of, ii. [382].
⸺.—See [Krishna].
Jahānārā Begam, tomb of, i. [371], [372].
Jahāngīrī Mahul, i. [361].
Jama Khānas, i. [354].
Jamh O Deen Muhammad, visit from, i. [33].
Jampān, description of a, ii. [227].
Janao, or sacred thread, i. [304], [305]; ii. [62].
Jasmine, double Arabian, i. [274].
Jasminum sambac pleno, [ib.]
Ice, consumption of American, i. [287].
⸺ pits at Allahabad, i. [78], [222].
Ichneumon, i. [314].
Idiot son of a Brahman, i. [225].
Jellinghy flat, vessel so called, ii. [105].
Jerrīpānī, ii. [236].
Jodh Bā’ī, tomb of, i. [407]; ii. [465].
Illness, singular mode of getting rid of, believed in by the natives, i. [223].
⸺, feigned, punishment of, ii. [303].
Imām-Bārā, i. [179].
Imāms, leaders of the faithful, i. [293-295].
John Strong, the drummer, presents his wife to a comrade, and desires to contract a second matrimonial alliance, ii. [293].
Ipomæa quamoclit, i. [310].
⸺ speciosa, i. [311].
Ishk-pechā, i. [310].
Jumna, storm on the, ii. [53], [54].
Jumnotrī, peaks of, ii. [265].
Jungipūr, toll at, ii. [97].
Jŭtayoo, a bird worshipped by the Hindoos, ii. [328].
K.
Kadam-i-rasūl, history of the, ii. [86], [87].
Kadam Sharīf, footprints of the prophet, at Gaur, ii. [86].
Kafir warrior, ii. [369].
Kailās, the mountain, ii. [266].
Kaldung, the mountain, ii. [269].
Kalī, a name of Dūrga, ii. [178].
Kalī Mā’ī, temple of, at Kalī Ghāt, ii. [104].
Kalī Nadī river, ii. [28].
Kalkī, or the horse, the tenth and final avatar yet to come, ii. [168].
Kaloo-rayŭ, a form of Shivŭ, ii. [106], [107].
Kalsās, i. [96]; ii. [417-421].
Kalunga, brave defence of, by the Ghoorkas, ii. [242], [243].
Kam-dhenū, the cow of plenty, ii. [159].
Kama-Deva, the god of love, ii. [171], [172].
Kanauj, ruins of, ii. [29], [30].
⸺, legend of, ii. [146].
⸺, ancient Hindū ruin at, ii. [143].
Kanwar Wālā, i. [260].
Kartikeya, the god of war, ii. [176].
Kasīm bazār, ii. [98].
Kedernāth, peak of, ii. [263].
⸺, temple of, [ib.]
Keeree pass, ii. [276], [277].
Kharīta of her Highness the Bāiza Bā’ī, ii. [250].
Khud, a narrow valley between two hills, so called, ii. [240].
Khŭnjŭnŭ, the wagtail, a form of Vishnŭ, ii. [329].
Kimkhwāb, manufactory of, ii. [62].
Kodalee, the Thugs’ pickaxe, i. [153].
Kookree of the Ghoorkas, description of, ii. [243].
Korah, or bughalee, of the Ghoorka officers, ii. [243].
Kos Minār, i. [377]; ii. [188].
Kotīla of Feroze Shāh, ii. [198].
Krishn, or Kaniyā-jee, history of, ii. [118-24].
⸺ and the 16,000 gopīs, sporting as elephants, horses, &c.. ii. [121].
⸺ as gopalū and gopī nat’hŭ, ii. [122].
⸺ Radha, i. [263], [264]; ii. [116], [122].
Krishn, descent of Vishnŭ as, ii. [168-171].
⸺ the bones of, and history, ii. [381-385].
Kurma, the tortoise, the second avatar, ii. [155].
Kutab Kí Lāt, ii. [205], [206].
Kutab Minār, ii. [202-205].
Kutcherry, a, i. [122].
Kywan Jah, Prince, i. [73].
L.
Lachhmī, the goddess of beauty, i. [42], [206], [207].
⸺, the wife of Vishnŭ, ii. [176], [177].
Ladies, native, their amusements in the zenāna, i. [230], [231].
La Martinière, i. [179].
Landowr, ii. [229].
Lāthī, what, i. [132].
Leaf-grasshopper, i. [242].
Leprosy, Arabian, i. [204-206].
Line, ceremonies of crossing the, i. [5-7].
Light, phosphoric, of the waves; description of the animal causing, ii. [353].
Lights, festival of, i. [162], [163].
Locusts, i. [288], [289].
Lucnow, visit to, i. [73].
⸺, second visit to, i. [175].
M.
Mach, Machchha, the Fish, or first avatar, ii. [153-155].
Magellan clouds, ii. [353], [375].
Magic, temple of, i. [404].
Mahabarat, a poem composed by Vyasa, ii. [179].
Mahadēo, or Mahā-Dēva, a form of Shivŭ, ii. [175], [176].
Mahratta Camp, ii. [32], [33].
Map of Delhi, ii. [222].
“Marchioness of Ely,” voyage in the, i. [2].
Marriage of a nīm to a peepul, i. [72].
⸺ of Susan Gardner to Unjun Sheko, i. [420-448].
Martine, General Claude, i. [179].
⸺, his magnificent tomb, [ib.]
Martynia, proboscidea, i. [319].
Masjid Jāma, the great mosque at Delhi, ii. [220], [221].
⸺ Kala, or black mosque, ii. [221], [222].
⸺ Akbārābādee, ii. [200].
⸺ of the Princess of China, i. [373], [374].
⸺, the Golden, ii. [84].
⸺, Motī, the mosque of pearl, i. [360].
Mats, Calcutta, i. [313].
Meerunke Sarā’e, ii. [143].
Melaleuca Kȳ’a-pootie, i. [317].
Mem Sāhiba, speech of the, i. [334].
Menagerie at Lucnow, i. [182].
⸺ at Barrackpūr, i. [39].
Mendicants, religious, i. [39].
⸺, account of, i. [256-260].
Menhdī, day of, i. [430-435].
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, arrival of, at Allahabad, ii. [49].
Mher-ul-Nissa, or Noormahul, or Noor-jahān, history of, i. [361-364].
Michelia champaca, i. [274].
Milton, descendants of, ii. [380].
Mint at Gwalior, ii. [56].
Miriam Zumanī, tomb of, i. [377].
Monghir, ii. [69].
Monkey, holy, ii. [125].
⸺, one kept in or near a stable, and why, ii. [13].
Moorshadabad, palace of the Nawāb at, ii. [98].
Mor-pankhī, a kind of pleasure-boat so called, [ib.]
Mountain storm, ii. [251].
Moustache, to dye the, i. [320].
Muhammad, the prophet, i. [107], [293-301], [453], [454], [459-466].
⸺, anecdotes concerning, i. [248], [282].
Muharram, account of the, i. [295-300]; ii. [17-21], [374].
Mulka Begam, i. [381].
⸺ ⸺, divorce of, from Mirza Selīm, and marriage to Mr. James. Gardner, i. [382].
Mulka Zumanī, i. [192], [193].
Mŭndodŭrēē, the wife of the giant Ravuna, i. [110].
Murder of two ladies in a zenāna, ii. [56].
N.
Nāch girls, i. [29], [30], [391], [427-429], [431].
Nāg-panchamī, i. [308].
Nalāpanī, ii. [269].
Nara-Singha, or the Man-Lion, the fourth avatar, ii. [157].
Native servants, ludicrous quarrels of, i. [146], [147].
Nauclea gambir, i. [318].
⸺ Orientalis, [ib.]
Nawāb, the, the Merchant, and the Palkī, ii. [306], [307].
⸺, a Muhammadan title of honour, singularly bestowed also on the ladies of the family of the Emperor of Delhi, i. [394], [415], [458].
⸺ Hakīm Menhdī, his house and zenāna, ii. [17-20].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, reappointed minister in Oude, ii. [135].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, his death, ii. [139].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, suspension-bridge of, ii. [182].
Newlands, ii. [235], [371].
Nicobar, islands of, i. [14]; ii. [476].
Nicumbha the fiend, i. [35].
Nīm tree, i. [71], [72], [112].
Nobutpoor, i. [65].
Noor-jahān, history of, i. [361-364].
⸺, turret of, i. [364].
Nose-ring, i. [385].
“Not at home,” Indian expression equivalent to, i. [388].
Nulgoon Pass, ii. [269].
Nusseer-ood-Deen-Hydur, death of, ii. [114].
Nut Log, or wandering gipsies, account of, i. [272].
Nyctanthes the sorrowful, i. [312].
Nymphæa, the, i. [311].
O.
Oats, i. [223].
Obelisk at Gaur, ii. [92-94].
Observatory near Delhi, ii. [209-212].
Ocymum album, i. [217].
⸺ pilosum, [ib.]
Oleander, i. [78].
Omens, bad, during the march of the Nawāb Hakīm Menhdī, ii. [135].
One-eyed men supposed to be more knowing than others, ii. [13].
Oomeid Thug, narrative of, i. [243-246].
Orange, H.R.H. Prince Henry of, and the Hon. the Misses Eden visit Lucnow, ii. [140].
Oude, heir apparent of, ii. [139].
⸺, King of, Ghazee-ood-Deen Hyder, i. [173].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, his meeting with the Governor-General, i. [174].
P.
Pachīsī-board, i. [405], [406].
Padshah Bāgh, the, i. [180].
Paganini of the East, i. [251].
Paharīs, or Hill-men, description of, ii. [227].
⸺, curious customs of the, relating to marriage, ii. [259].
Palanquins, i. [24].
Palia Gadh, glen of, ii. [267].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺ ⸺, wild legends connected with the, ii. [268].
Palma, island of, i. [3], [4]; ii. [350].
Pān and Atr, ii. [4], [5], [445].
⸺ Gardens, ii. [86].
Panchāyāt, or native court of justice, ii. [305].
Pandanus odoratissimus, i. [318].
Pankhā, i. [25].
Paper, sheets of, immense, ii. [201], [202].
Paradise, canal of, ii. [195].
Parda of the Mahrattas, ii. [45].
⸺, procession in, ii. [46], [47].
Parisnāth, temple of, i. [324]; ii. [166].
Parkyal, ii. [269].
Parswanáth, the god, Budhist or Jain, i. [325]; ii. [166].
Pārvutī, ii. [145], [175].
Pathan, barbarous treatment of a, i. [284].
Peacock, goose, and owl, the, worshipped by the Hindoos, ii. [329].
Pebbles from the Soane and Cane rivers, i. [113], [114].
Pedigree of the gods, ii. [147], [148].
⸺ of Col. Wm. L. Gardner, i. [420].
⸺ of the kings of Oude, i. [186].
Peepul tree, i. [217], [221], [222].
⸺ ⸺, remarkable quality of its seeds, ii. [295].
⸺ ⸺, its skeleton leaves, i. [218].
Pheasant, red, ii. [232].
⸺, blue, of the Himalaya, ii. [232].
Phŭlŭ-Hŭrēē, i. [164], [165].
Pico, the island of, ii. [494].
Pigeon, Cape, i. [8].
Pilgrim, the, and another lady, are mistaken for cadets, ii. [302], [303].
⸺ the, taken for a foreigner; also for a lancer, ii. [329].
Pintado, i. [8].
Pīr Shāh, tomb of, ii. [223].
Plague, alleged appearance of, at Palee, ii. [110].
Poinciana pulcherrima, i. [317].
Poison, African, and poison-bulb, ii. [366], [367].
Polyanthus tuberosa, i. [318].
Porto Santo, island of, i. [3].
Powder works and rocket manufactory, i. [225], [226].
Punica granatum, i. [317].
Punishment, brutal, inflicted by the King of Oude, i. [169].
Punishments of the grave, Muhammadan notions concerning the, i. [464-466].
Purānas, the sacred, ii. [179].
Q.
Quail shooting, i. [229].
⸺, pitched battle of, i. [74], [75].
Quarrel, laughable, between an ayha and an abdār, i. [140], [141].
Qui hys, old Indians why so called, i. [145].
Quicksand, accident in a, i. [247].
R.
Radha Krishn, ii. [122].
Rājā, a Hindū sovereign; a title bestowed also most singularly upon the ladies of Scindia’s family, ii. [342], [465].
Rāj ghāt, Allahabad, i. [114].
Rākhī, or bracelet, festival of the, ii. [117], [118].
Rāma, or Rām, descriptions of, i. [263].
⸺ Parashu, the sixth avatar, ii. [159].
⸺ Chandra, the seventh avatar, ii. [160], [161].
⸺ Bala, the eighth avatar, ii. [161].
⸺ Sīta, i. [342]; ii. [161].
⸺ Leela festival, i. [108].
Ranayana, an epic poem, ii. [179].
Rās, sacred dance so called, ii. [116].
Rat, the vahan of Ganesh, ii. [174].
Rat’s granary, ii. [241].
⸺, Bandicote, i. [51].
Ravuna, the giant, i. [109], [110].
Reeçee Khoond, warm spring at, ii. [71].
Reflection of distant objects, extraordinary power of seeing the, i. [139].
Rhododendron, white, ii. [232].
⸺ ⸺, juice of the petals of the, alleged to have an intoxicating quality, ii. [232].
Rice, trial by, i. [40].
Riding, style of, practised by the Mahratta ladies, ii. [5], [6].
Roasting a sirdar-bearer, charge for, ii. [30].
Rockets, i. [225].
Roomal, or handkerchief of the Thugs, i. [156].
Roomee Durwāza, i. [179].
Rosaries, i. [258-260], [267].
Runjeet Singh, meeting of Lord Auckland with, ii. [297].
Rupees, recovery of the stolen, i. [102].
S.
Saadut Ulee Khan, tomb of, i. [182].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, baths of, ii. [218], [219].
⸺ ⸺ ⸺, palace of, ii. [218].
Sāchak, day of, i. [428].
Saharanpūr, botanical garden at, ii. [224].
Sā’īs, whimsical complaint of a, i. [234].
Salt-box, peculiar kind of, used by the Hill-men, ii. [89].
Salvia Bengalensis, i. [315].
Saraswatī, the goddess of learning, science, and the fine arts, ii. [177], [178].
⸺, picture of, riding on a peacock, [on the cover of Vol. I.]
⸺ the river, i. [213].
Sarson, a species of mustard plant, ii. [88].
Sāti without a head, stolen and brought on board the pinnace, ii. [25].
⸺ at Allahabad, i. [91].
⸺ at Nobutpoor, i. [65].
⸺ at Ghazīpūr, ii. [419].
⸺ abolished, i. [161].
⸺ mounds in Alopee Bagh, i. [95].
⸺ ⸺ at Beerpūr, ii. [66].
School, experimental, fecundity of the young ladies in, ii. [293-295].
Scorpion, the fact of its self-destruction when tormented by fire, ii. [238], [239].
“Seagull,” the pinnace, description of, i. [322].
⸺, loss of the, ii. [59].
Sefder Jung, palace of, ii. [218].
Sekunder al Sānī, ii. [25].
⸺, inscriptions on coins of, i. [133].
Selīm Ghar, i. [364].
⸺, Shaik, of Cheestie, tomb of, i. [403].
Sensitive plant, i. [315].
Serampūr, ii. [101].
Servants, list of, i. [209].
Shah’ālam, tomb of, ii. [208].
Shah Burj, the royal tower, ii. [218].
⸺ Kubbeer-oo-deen Ahmud, i. [65].
Shahjahan, i. [349].
Shāhjahānabad, modern city of, ii. [193].
Shalgramŭ, description of the, i. [43-45].
Shalimar, gardens of, ii. [218].
Shark, blue, i. [8].
Shawl, looking-glass, i. [239], [240].
Sheep, Doomba, i. [78].
⸺, Karral, ii. [239].
Sher Afgan, i. [361].
Shield, silver, presented to Mr. Blood by the 16th Lancers, ii. [188].
Shīsha-mahal, or house of glass, i. [365], [366].
Shivŭ, the destroyer, the third personage of the Hindū triad, ii. [172], [173].
Sholā floats (com. sola), ii. [100].
Shooting season on the ocean, i. [9], [10].
Shubbeah Begam, i. [422].
Sikrī Gālī, ii. [72], [397].
Simundee Begam, tomb of, i. [358].
Sircar, or Sarcar, i. [21], [22].
Sīta Khūnd, boiling spring of, ii. [69], [70].
Sitar, description of a, i. [250].
Sitee Khānam, i. [359].
Skip-jacks, i. [5].
Slang, essay on, ii. [283], [284].
Slavery at the Cape, extraordinary story relative to, ii. [357].
Sling, peculiar, used by the Hill-men, ii. [243].
Small pox, ravages of, ii. [110].
Snake-boats, ii. [98].
⸺ charmers, ii. [436].
⸺ ⸺, imposture of a, i. [108].
⸺ sea, i. [12].
Snakes, directions of Mohummud relative to, i. [107], [108].
⸺, dread of, not innate in man, i. [302].
Sneezing, Hindū superstitions relative to, ii. [289].
Snowy ranges of the Himalaya, first view of the, ii. [224].
Soane, blue waters of the, ii. [67].
Soap stone, i. [343].
Sola, hats and other articles made of, i. [286]; ii. [100].
Sonahlā Mahal, or chamber of gold, i. [375], [377].
Song, Hindostanī, i. [134].
Sorcery, practised with a charmed bow, i. [237].
Spider, the, why held sacred by the Muhammedans, i. [300], [301].
Spirit of a man destroyed by a tiger, superstition relating to the, ii. [13], [14].
Sporting in Assam, ii. [125-133].
Spring-bow, ii. [73], [74], [131].
Squirrel, Jack Bunce the, i. [18].
Srīphul, or the flower of Srī, the poetic name of the biloa, ii. [175].
Stars, falling, Mahomedan philosophy of i. [248].
St. Helena, ii. [316-320].
Stone, flexible, ii. [256].
Stones, those used in the Mosaic of the Tāj, i. [357].
Storm, the spirit of the, ii. [349].
Strelitzia regina, ii. [365].
Sugar mills, ii. [457-460].
Sunderbands, ii. [106].
Superstitions of the natives, ii. [9].
Surya-Kund, hot spring of, ii. [262].
Sutherland, Major, Resident of Gwalior, ii. [183], [184], [186-188].
T.
Tailors not allowed to make clothes for Hindū ladies, ii. [113].
Tāj Mahul, i. [348-359].
⸺ ⸺, ground plan of the, i. [356].
Taziya, what, i. [296].
Temple of the Gosain, i. [104].
Theatre, Artillery, at Meerut, ii. [190].
Theodore, Mrs., her collection of stuffed birds and beasts, ii. [225].
Thermantidote, i. [199], [208].
Thief detected by a Gosā’īn, i. [102], [103].
Thieves, domestic, i. [101-104].
Thug, confessions of a, i. [123-131].
⸺, escape of a gentleman from a, i. [168].
Thugs, execution of eleven, i. [151], [152].
⸺, ⸺ ⸺ twenty-five, i. [201], [202].
⸺, customs of the, i. [153-158].
⸺, dice, i. [151].
⸺, slang terms used by the, i. [130].
Tiger, au naturel, ii. [225].
⸺ hunting on foot, ii. [128-130].
⸺ tracks, ii. [72], [73].
⸺ claws, charms made of, ii. [12], [13].
Tīka, ornament so called, description of the, i. [254].
Timber rafts, ii. [99], [100].
Title conferred on the pilgrim by her Highness the ex-Queen of Gwalior, ii. [7].
Toddy, injurious, i. [147], [148].
Tongue, protrusion of the, an expression of shame among the Hindū women, i. [165].
Tooth-brushes regarded with horror, i. [462].
Travati the Elephant, the vahan of Indra, ii. [174].
Treasures, hidden, ii. [41], [42].
Triveni, what, i. [213].
⸺, pilgrimage to the, i. [212], [213].
⸺, the Gāja Rājā and all her ladies bathe at the, ii. [48].
Tulsī, pūja of the, i. [42].
⸺, sweet, [ib.]
⸺, various sorts of, i. [217].
Turban, arrangement of a, i. [234].
U.
Ubruk (talc) applied to many uses, i. [219].
Unicorn, alleged existence of the, in the Himalaya, i. [239].
Up-Country men, their hatred of the Bengalīs curiously exemplified, ii. [309], [310].
Ussuf-ood-Dowla, his tomb, i. [179].
V.
Vaccine department done away with, evils resulting therefrom, ii. [110].
Valmiki, the first Indian poet, ii. [179].
Vamana, or the Dwarf, the seventh avatar, ii. [157-159].
Vase, silver, a prize gained by the pilgrim in a lottery, ii. [112].
Vedas, the, ii. [180], [181].
Vessel, spirit of a, i. [345].
Viasa, an Indian poet, compiler of the Vedas, ii. [179].
Vishnŭ the Preserver, the second personage of the Hindū triad, i. [27], [42-45]; ii. [151], [152].
Visionary old man, the, i. [139].
Voyage on the Ganges, vessels for, i. [31].
W.
Waterspouts, ii. [475], [493].
Wax of the human ear, i. [177].
Wax, sealing, i. [309].
Widows, Hindū, the privations to which they are subjected, ii. [7], [8].
Wind raised by a sāti, ii. [25].
Wolff, the Rev. Joseph, i. [268-272].
Women, Bengālī, ii. [97], [98].
⸺, their great influence over men in India, i. [140].
Wood-cutters of Bengal, their peculiar mode of worshipping Kuloo-rayŭ, ii. [107].
Y.
Yāk, or cow of Thibet, tail of, i. [238], [239].
Yam, rut aloe, (dioscorea sativa,) i. [316].
Z.
Zamia horrida, ii. [365], [366].
⸺ longifolia, [ib.]
Zeenut-al-Masjid, ii. [200].
Zenāna or zanāna of a Calcutta baboo, i. [60].
⸺ of the king of Oude, i. [87-90], [192-195].
⸺, revelations of life in the zenāna of a Timoorian princess, i. [379].
⸺, life in the, and chīta hunting, i. [391].
⸺, marriage in the zenāna, i. [421]
⸺ of the Nāwab Hakim Menhdi, ii. [19], [20].
⸺ of Nāwab of Fathīgarh, ii. [16].
Zenāna-ghar, ii. [208].
Zoffani, picture painted by, i. [181].
Zumanī Miriam, tomb of, i. [377].

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Elevation of the Himālāyā Mountains.