_Crannies_—Portuguese and country-born clerks in offices, and fillers of subordinate Government employments, &c. Footnote 6: _Ticca_, i.e. hired. Footnote 7: Honest Sancho Panza divides the world into two grand classes—the have-somethings and the have-nothings. Blacky, by an equally comprehensive arrangement, includes all mankind under the heads of Topee Wala and Puckree Bund, or _hat-men_ and _turban-wearers_. Footnote 8: 6 bottles real Cognac, 1 pine cheese, 2 pot raspberry jam, 2 bag of shot. Footnote 9: Village-curs, appertaining to no one in particular. Footnote 10: A “made-up” terrier. Footnote 11: Liverpool, long considered a distinct empire from Great Britain by the natives, and as forming no part of Europe. Footnote 12: Sick _maun_, or sick man, one of the few phrases borrowed from the English, and applied to brutes, furniture, or anything damaged or out of order. Footnote 13: In this country of high-pressure morality, it may be right to explain that the same reluctance to mingle under one roof the children _legitimè procreati_ with those less legally begotten does not exist in India, where unhappily, humanity and laxity flourish together, the reverse of what it should be, of course. Footnote 14: Broad-brimmed hat of pith or solah. Footnote 15: _Boosa_, chopped straw. Footnote 16: _Hilsa_, a fish slightly resembling the salmon. Footnote 17: _Soondur Bun_: i.e. the beautiful wood. Footnote 18: _Jhoul_, housings; _howdah_, seat. Footnote 19: The attack on the factory is an actual occurrence, and took place as described in all the essential particulars. The relator has been on the spot, and had the details from the principal actor in the scene. Footnote 20: _i.e._, understand. Footnote 21: _Jow-jehanum_; a peremptory injunction to proceed to a place which it is not usual to mention to “ears polite.” Footnote 22: Tales of a Parrot. Footnote 23: “Well.” Footnote 24: “Very well.” Footnote 25: A strong phrase for driving a lady out in a buggy; in India, looked upon as symptomatic of an approaching matrimonial crisis. Footnote 26: Oh! nurse, bring the Paun box. Footnote 27: Europeans—thus pronounced by English soldiers. Footnote 28: Seapie, sepoy. Footnote 29: In the native regiments there are two grenadier companies, in European corps only one. Footnote 30: Chick or sequin, four rupees. Footnote 31: Since this was written, medals have been ordered, I believe, for the officers who served in Affghanistan. Is it too late to give them to those who fought and suffered in Java, Arracan, Nepaul, &c.? Footnote 32: True—very well. Footnote 33: Plantations. Footnote 34: European. Footnote 35: The red-legged partridge of Kamaon is also called a chikor, but this is not the bird here meant. Footnote 36: Nagara: royal kettle-drum. Footnote 37: