princes (a translation of which, by their Syrian mehmandar, Assaad Yakoob Khayat, has been printed in England for private circulation) is curious, as giving a picture of European ways and manners when viewed through a purely Asiatic medium; while the remarkably sensible and well-written narrative of the two Parsees who lately visited this country for the purpose of instruction in naval architecture,[6] differs little from the description of the same objects which would be given by an intelligent and well-educated European, if they could be presented to him in the aspect of utter novelty. The latest of these Oriental wanderers in the ungenial climes of Franguestan, is the one whose name appears at the head of this article, and who, with a rare and commendable modesty, has preferred introducing himself to the public under the protecting guidance of Maga, to venturing, alone and without a pilot, among the perilous rocks and shoals of the critics of _the Row_; him therefore we shall now introduce, without further comment, to the favourable notice of our readers. [4] _Shalwarlek_--"tight trousers"--was a phrase used, under the old Turkish régime, as equivalent to a blackguard. [5] The Moslems, and other natives of India descended from foreign races, are properly called _Hindustanis_, while the aborigines are the _Hindus_--a distinction not well understood in Europe. The former take their name from the country, as _natives of Hindustan_, which has derived its own name from the latter, as being the _country of the Hindus_. [6] Journal of a Residence of Two Years and a Half in Great Britain, by Jehangeer Nowrojee and Hirjeebhoy Merwanjee of Bombay, Naval Architects. London: 1841.