[3] After the first bath pieces of black thread are tied round the child's wrist and ankle as protection. [4] _Amaltas, Cassia fistula_ [5] The purgative draught (_guthl_) is usually made of aniseed, myro-bolans, dried red rose leaves, senna, and the droppings of mice or goats.--_Bombay Gazetteer_, ix, part ii, 153. [6] _Gudri_. [7] _Ta'awiz_. [8] Among the Khojahs of Bombay a stool is placed near the mother's bed, and as each, of the female relatives comes in she strews a little rice on the stool, lays on the ground a gold or silver anklet as a gift for the child, and bending over mother and baby, passes her hands over them, and cracks her finger-joints against her own temples, in order to take all their ill luck upon herself.--_Bombay Gazetteer_, ix, part ii, 45. [9] _Duli_: see p. 184. [10] _Salgirah_ or _barasganth_, 'year-knot'. [11] _Gardani_. [12] P. 36. [13] The Mahomedans are very keen on breeding pigeons in large numbers; they make them fly all together, calling out, whistling, and waving with a cloth fastened to the end of a stick, running and making signals from the terraced roofs, with a view of encouraging the pigeons to attack the flock of some one else.... Every owner is overjoyed in seeing his own pigeons the most dexterous in misleading their opponents.'--Manucci, _Storia do Mogor_, i. 107 f. [14] _Mugdar_. [15] _Rohu_, a kind of carp, _Labeo rohita_. [16] The use of the bow and arrow has now disappeared in northern India, and survives only among some of the jungle tribes. [17] A curious relic of the custom of cock-fighting at Lucknow survives in the picture by Zoffany of the famous match between the Nawab Asaf-ud-daula and Col. Mordaunt in 1786. The figures in the picture are portraits of the celebrities at the Court of Oudh, whose names are given by Smith, _Catalogue of British Mezzotint Portrait_, i. 273. [18] _Bater, Coturnix communis_. [19] Lucknow is now an important racing centre, and the Civil Service Cup for ponies has been won several times by native gentlemen. [20] The feather or curl is one of the most important marks. If it faces towards the head, this is a horse to buy; if it points towards the tail, it is a 'female snake' (_sampan_), a bad blemish, as is a small star on the forehead. A curl at the bottom of the throat is very lucky, and cancels other blemishes. A piebald horse or one with five white points, a white face and four white stockings, is highly valued. The European who understands the rules can often buy an 'unlucky' horse at a bargain. [21] _Dub, Cynodon Dactylon_. [22] _Chadar._ [23] _Cicer arietinum_: the word comes from Port, _grão_, a grain. [24] _Moth_, the aconite-leaved kidney-bean, _Phaseolus aconitifolius_. [25] _Barsati_ from _barsat_, the rainy season; a pustular eruption breaking out on the head and fore parts of the body.