The people are very fond of these nuts, and they are carried often upon bullocks' backs two or three hundred miles to market. They ripen in the latter end of the rains, or in September, and are eatable till the end of November. The rent paid for an ordinary tank by the cultivator is about one hundred rupees a year. I have known two hundred rupees to be paid for a very large one, and even three hundred, or thirty pounds a year.[11] But the mud increases so rapidly from this cultivation that it soon destroys all reservoirs in which it is permitted; and, where it is thought desirable to keep up the tank for the sake of the water, it should be carefully prohibited. This is done by stipulating with the renter of the village, at the renewal of the lease, that no 'singhâra' shall be planted in the tank; otherwise, he will never forgo the advantage to himself of the rent for the sake of the convenience, and that only prospective, of the village community in general. Notes: 1. Afterwards Captain H. A. Sleeman, He died in 1905. 2. Of Garhâ, see _ante_, Chapter 9, prior to note 10. 3. The real 'kalpa', which now stands in the garden of the god Indra in the first heaven, was one of the fourteen varieties found at the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons. It fell to the share of Indra. [W. H. S.] The tree referred to in the text perhaps may be the _Erythrina arborescens_, or coral-tree, which sheds its leaves after the hot weather. 4. That is to say, orderlies, or 'chaprâsîs'. 5. Every Hindoo is thoroughly convinced that the names of Râm and his consort Sîtâ are written on this tree by the hand of God, and nine- tenths of the Musalmâns believe the same. Happy the man who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that chequer life, Resolving all events, with their effects And manifold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreme. COWPER. [W. H. S.] The quotation is from _The Task_, Book II, line 161. 6. Sâdî (Sa'dî) is the poetic name, or _nom de plume_, of the celebrated Persian poet, whose proper name is said to have been Shaikh Maslah-ud-dîn, or, according to other authorities, Sharf-ud- dîn Mislah. He was born about A.D. 1194, and is supposed to have lived for more than a hundred years. Some writers say that he died in A.D. 1292. His best known works are the _Gulistân_ and _Bûstân_. The editor has failed to trace in either of these works the couplet quoted. Sâdî says in the _Gulistân_, ii. 26, 'That heart which has an ear is full of the divine mystery. It is not the nightingale that alone serenades his rose; for every thorn on the rose-bush is a tongue in his or God's praise' (Ross's translation). 7. November, 1835.