_bacia_), _līlām_ and _nīlām_ ('an auction'), besides a number of terms used by Lascars on board ship. The Dutch language has not contributed much to our store. The Dutch and the English arrived in the Indies contemporaneously, and though both inherited from the Portuguese, we have not been the heirs of the Dutch to any great extent, except in Ceylon, and even there Portuguese vocables had already occupied the colloquial ground. _Petersilly_, the word in general use in English families for 'parsley,' appears to be Dutch. An example from Ceylon that occurs to memory is _burgher_. The Dutch admitted people of mixt descent to a kind of citizenship, and these were distinguished from the pure natives by this term, which survives. _Burgher_ in Bengal means 'a rafter,' properly _bargā_. A word spelt and pronounced in the same way had again a curiously different application in Madras, where it was a corruption of _Vaḍagar_, the name given to a tribe in the Nilgherry hills;—to say nothing of Scotland, where Burghers and Antiburghers were Northern tribes (_veluti_ Gog _et_ Magog!) which have long been condensed into elements of the United Presbyterian Church——! Southern India has contributed to the Anglo-Indian stock words that are in hourly use also from Calcutta to Peshawur (some of them already noted under another cleavage), _e.g._ _betel_, _mango_, _jack_, _cheroot_, _mungoose_, _pariah_, _bandicoot_, _teak_, _patcharee_, _chatty_, _catechu_, _tope_ ('a grove'), _curry_, _mulligatawny_, _congee_. _Mamooty_ (a digging tool) is familiar in certain branches of the service, owing to its having long had a place in the nomenclature of the Ordnance department. It is Tamil, _manvĕtti_, 'earth-cutter.' Of some very familiar words the origin remains either dubious, or matter only for conjecture. Examples are _hackery_ (which arose apparently in Bombay), _florican_, _topaz_. As to Hindustani words adopted into the Anglo-Indian colloquial the subject is almost too wide and loose for much remark. The habit of introducing these in English conversation and writing seems to prevail more largely in the Bengal Presidency than in any other, and especially more than in Madras, where the variety of different vernaculars in use has tended to make their acquisition by the English less universal than is in the north that of Hindustani, which is so much easier to learn, and also to make the use in former days of Portuguese, and now of English, by natives in contact with foreigners, and of French about the French settlements, very much more common than it is elsewhere. It is this bad habit of interlarding English with Hindustani phrases which has so often excited the just wrath of high English officials, not accustomed to it from their youth, and which (_e.g._) drew forth in orders the humorous indignation of Sir Charles Napier.